Yusuf Ibish, 1926-2003 (w./ John Hunwick: "Timbuktu: A Refuge of Scholarly and Rigthteous Folk") (9-20)
Nehemia Levtzion, 1935-2003 (21-32)
A Portrait of the Arabic Script at the Cape, Muhammad Haron (33-54)
A Document of Personal Exemption from the Kingdom of Sinnar, Neil McHugh (55-59)
A Sudanese Tijani Shaykh: Muddaththir Ibrahim al-Hajjaz (1866/67-1937), 'Ali Salih Karrar and Yahya Muhammad Ibrahim (61-75)
The Search for a Yoruba Orthography in the 1840s: Obstacles to the Choice of the Arabic Script, Isaac Adejoju Ogunbiyi (77-102)
A Warning about Imminent Calamity in Colonial French West Africa: the Chain Letter as Historical Source, Benjamin F. Soares (103-116)
Début de la colonisation: Document sur l'arrivée des Français au Fouta en Guinée, Aminatou Diallo Bah (117-126)
Virginia Luling, Somali Sultanate (Scott S. Reese) (149-152)
Ousmane Kane, Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria (Muhammad Sani Umar) (153-157)
Gabriel Warburg, Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan (Heather Sharkey) (158-161)