INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN AFRICA

Islamic Africa is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, academic journal launched at Northwestern in 2009 by Muhammad Sani Umar (ISITA's director from 2007-13). The journal was a collaborative publishing project between the Program of African Studies and Northwestern University Press seeded by the Mellon Foundation. It incorporated the earlier journal Sudanic Africa, published in sixteen volumes by John Hunwick and R.S. O’Fahey between 1990 and 2007.

Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) took over publication of Islamic Africa in 2015. The journal publishes original research concerning Islam in Africa from the social sciences and the humanities, as well as primary source material and commentary essays related to Islamic Studies in Africa.

Note that publication of  Islamic Africa  is no longer handled by Northwestern University Press.  Information about the journal, including submissions information, can be found on the Brill website.