Proselytization and Communal Self-Determination in Africa

This probing collection of essays bring together a stellar group of Muslim and Christian, African and Western scholars. Together they explore the question, ＂Where does one community’s right to commend itself to others leave off, and another community’s right to be left alone begin?＂

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, a native of Sudan, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University. His publications include: Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari’a, African Constitutionalism and the Contingent Role of Islam, Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights and International Law.