Contributors Dr. Adnan Ali Adikata Dr. Adnan Ali Adikata is the Director of the Islamic University in Uganda’s (IUIU) Kampala campus, where he also teaches. Dr. Adikata’s experience spans Sudan, Malaysia, and several Eastern African countries. He utilizes journalistic and media platform to advance Islamic values, norms, and the need for the “Islamization” of knowledge. As the head of the Department of Mass Communication and chief editor for the IUIU’s News Bulletin, he has developed communication strategies and public relations campaigns tar- geting academia and disadvantaged and marginalized rural populations. Among others, Dr. Adikata’s media campaigns in Uganda included awareness about the importance of preserving indigenous languages and Islamic culture. The campaigns also target the Nubian youth in addressing issues of identity crisis and developing a sense of belonging. Dr. Adikata initiated the HIV/AIDS and awareness programs for the Nubian community, supported by the Global Funds. He has helped to secure several scholarships to support education among marginalized communities. Dr. Adikata also used his experience of facil- itating the Muslim personality development (USRAH) programs while in Malaysia to initiate a new program on family values at the IUIU’s females campus. Finally, Dr. Adikata received his PhD from the International Islamic University Malaysia, his MSc and MLIS from Universti Putra Malaysia and International Islamic University Malaysia, respectively, and his BAHSc from International Islamic University Malaysia. Dr. Abdulmageed Abdulraheem A. Ahmed Dr. Abdulmageed Ahmed received his PhD in Education and Educational Planning from the International University of Africa, where he is currently a French Language lecturer and serves as the Registrar for the Center for Research and African Studies. He has pub- lished books on a variety of subjects, including integrative medicine, electronic education, and the politicization of Islam. Dr. Chanfi Ahmed Trained in Islamic Studies and Social History, Dr. Chanfi Ahmed has written on a variety of topics related to Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, and East Africa in particular, including 284 ● Notes on Contributors Sufi revival, Muslim preachers, Islamic education, and Islamic faith-based NGOs. His books include Islam et Politique aux Comores (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2000), Ngoma et Mis- sion Islamique (da’wa) aux Comores et en Afrique Orientale. Une Approche anthropologique (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002); Les Conversions à l’Islam fondamentaliste en Afrique au sud du Sahara. Le cas de la Tanzanie et du Kenya– (L’Harmattan,» Paris, 2008); -Jawabu-l-Ifr¯ ¯ıq¯ı/The Response of the African. West African ulama¯ in Mecca and Medina (19th–20th Centuries) (Brill, Leiden, Forthcoming). He has published many articles in various peer-reviewed journals such as Africa Today, The Journal of Eastern African Studies,andThe Journal for Islamic Studies. His current research focuses on the transformation of Islamic teaching in the two main mosques– of al-H. aramain (Mecca and Medina) introduced by the Wahhabi regime of Ibn Sa ud, immediately after his conquest of the H. ijaz in 1926. In addition, Dr. Ahmed is researching the present life and the history of the black communities of Mecca (and of the H. ijaz) since the nineteenth century. Generally, he is interested in Islam in Saudi Arabia, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in the relations between Arabs and Africans. He is currently a Research Fellow at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Ismail S. Gyagenda Dr. Ismail S. Gyagenda is Associate Professor of Education at the Tift College of Edu- cation, Mercer University in Atlanta, GA, USA. He obtained a BA (First Class Honors) from Makerere University in 1979; an MEd in teaching English as a foreign language from Yarmouk University, Jordan, in 1987; an MA in Educational Administration from the University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC in 1989; and a PhD in Educational Studies from Emory University, Atlanta, GA, in 1999. He has been teach- ing in the Graduate Teacher Program at Mercer University since 2000. He teaches Educational Research, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, and Advocacy and Social Justice through Curriculum and Instruction. He was a Visiting Professor at Islamic University in Uganda in 2010 and a Fulbright scholar in Malawi, 2013. His recent coauthored publications include: Examining Ugandan and Malawian language of instruction policies from a linguistic human rights perspective: Past and present challenges and realities. In Z. Babaci-Wilhite (Ed.). Giving Space to African Voices: Rights in Local Languages and Local Curriculum (2014); African elders’ perceptions of youth informal education: Is the African village ethos at risk? Islamic University Journal, 3 (2), 2013, pp. 7–13; and Using classical and modern measurement theories to explore rater, domain, and gender influences on stu- dent writing ability. In M. L. Garner, G. Engelhard, Jr., W. P. Fisher, Jr., and M. Wilson (Eds.). Advances in Research Measurement: Volume 1, 2010 (pp. 398–429). His research interests include educational measurement and assessment, culture and schooling, rights in education, and Islamic institutions of higher education in Africa. Dr. Muhammed Haron Dr. Muhammed Haron is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Botswana. He was educated at the Universities of Durban-Westville, Cape Town, South Africa, King Saud, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and Rhodes. Haron has taught at the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town, National University of Malaysia, Stellenbosch University, and Rhodes University. He authored The Dynamics of Christian-Muslim Relations in South Africa (ca 1960–2000) and he edited Going Forward: Notes on Contributors ● 285 South Africa-Malaysia Relations Cementing South-South Connections (2008). He compiled South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (circa 1993–2008): An Annotated Bibli- ography as well as Muslims in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography. He also co-authored First Steps in Arabic Grammar and Second Steps in Arabic Grammar. He edited two issues of University of Cape Town’s Journal for Islamic Studies (1997 and 1998/1999), and guest edited Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (University of Pretoria) that published a special issue on Arabo-Islamic Literature (March 2008) as well as BOLESWA: Journal of Theology, Reli- gion and Philosophy (Universities of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland) that published a special issue on Muslims in Southern Africa (December 2012). Dr. Moshood Mahmood M. Jimba Dr. Moshood Jimba was born in Ilorin, which is in North-Central Nigeria, in 1963. He had his early Qur’anic education under the tutelage of his father. He later attended Ma’had Ilorin Al-Azhary between 1975 and 1981 before he proceeded to Al-Azhar Institute for foreign students in Cairo and later to Al-Azhar University, where he received his BA in Arabic language in 1988. He later received his MA and PhD at the University of Ilorin in 1995 and 2006, respectively. He worked at Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies, Ilorin, where he rose to the ranks of Chief Lecturer, Head of the Depart- ment of Arabic, Dean of the School of Languages, Director of Sports, and Director of Students’ Affairs at different times. He later joined the services of Kogi State University, where he was the Head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies until he joined Kwara State University in March 2012. Here, he presently works as a lecturer and Director of the Center for Ilorin Manuscripts and Culture. He has worked as an adjunct lecturer in a number of universities in Nigeria including the Universities of Ilorin, Ado-Ekiti, and Nasarawa State. In addition, he is the editor of several academic journals including Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, Anyigba Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies of Kogi State University,andAl-Lisan Journal of the Nigeria Association of Teachers of Arabic language & Literature. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals in Nigeria and abroad and he has five books to his credit. Dr. Ousman Murzik Kobo Professor Kobo has obtained his BA (Honors), City College of New York (1992); MA (International Relations), City College of New York (1995); and PhD (History), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005). He has served as Visiting Assistant Profes- sor of African history at Marquette University and Gettysburg College before joining the History Department of Ohio State University in 2006 Professor Kobo’s research and teaching interests include twentieth-century West African social and religious his- tory; contemporary Islamic history; Sufism; Islam under French and British colonialism in Africa; and the social history of West African migrants in the United States. His book, Unveiling Modernity in West African Islamic Reforms, 1950–2000 (Brill Publishers, 2012), documents and compares the histories of contemporary Islamic reforms associ- ated with Wahhabism in Ghana and Burkina Faso. The book also examines the rise of Wahhabi-inclined movements at the end of colonial rule and helps us understand Muslims’ engagements with modernity. His publications include, “The Development of Wahhabi Reforms in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960–1990: Elective Affinities between Western-Educated Muslims and Islamic Scholars” (Comparative Studies in Society and 286 ● Notes on Contributors History, 2009 51(3), 502–532) and “ ‘We are citizens too’: The Politics of Citizenship in Independent Ghana,” Journal of Modern African Studies,