Prof. Muhammed Haron delivered his presentation "Scholarly research, bibliographical reflections" at the 2nd International Congress on Islamic Civilisation in Southern Africa.

1. Southern Africa’s Muslim Minorities
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3. Nature of Scholarship Inter-disciplinary
 Identity & Politics of
Scholarship in the
Study of Religion
(Cabezon & Davaney
[ed.]2004)
 African Studies
(Azevedo [ed] 1998)
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5.  African Studies:
Broad Discipline =
includes Islamic
Studies
 Islamic Studies =
straddles all
disciplines
 Africa (includes
North African
Muslims = Arabs,
Berbers, & Other)
 Sub-Saharan
Africa (excludes
North African
Muslims = Arabs,
Berbers, & Other)
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7.  Broad & Expansive field of research
 Islamic Studies: opportunity to influence &
shape outcomes in and outside continent
 Like African Studies affected by formation &
development of nation-states 1950 sand
emerged as an independent discipline
towards latter of 20th
century
 Denial of Africa’s past – denial of the
formation of Muslim identities
 History: helped to restore & assisted by other
social sciences: ethnographers, sociologists,
orientalists & very late by Islamologists (?)
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9.  Patrick Ofori Islam in
Africa: South of the
Sahara (Nendeln: KTO
Press 1977)
 Samir Zoghby Islam in
Sub-Saharan Africa: A
Partially Annotated Guide
(Washington: Library of
Congress 1978)
 Paul Schrijver
Bibliography on Islam in
Sub-Saharan Africa
(Leiden: ASC 2006)
 Abdulkader Tayob’s Islam
in Africa: Research Guide
(Oxford: OUP 2010)

10. UPDATING AND AMENDING AN ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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14.  Updating Ruth Hampson’s Post-Graduate
Studies Bibliographical Research: 1960s
 Complementing Gerrie Lubbe and Ebrahim
Mahida’s respective bibliographical
compilations:1980s
 Preparing an annotated bibliography with a
detailed index: Haron 1990s

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16.  Annotations: informative
and descriptive
 Index: General subject – an
index with sub-sections such
as place names,
organizations, etc

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Research in the 1980's an

19.  The annotated
bibliography –
constant updates
 Includes texts on
Southern African
region (Botswana,
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe, etc)
 Towards an annotated
bibliography of
Muslims in (sub-
Saharan) Africa