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2 164 historical study of religious change. Could one more profitably focus on tensions between diffusion and translation, rather than on contrasts between them? Might one ask how it is that so much 'translation' occurs when it is theoretically unacceptable, and how it is that 'diffusion' takes place when 'translation' is so enthusiastically supported? Can one adequately assess the tension between diffusion and translation by focusing so narrowly on scrip- tural translation? Can one develop interpretive theoretical frameworks that are more heuristic than categorical, and that make as much of a place as possible for historical and cultural context? WORKS CITED Clarke, Peter B. West Africa and Islam. A study of religious development from the 8th. to the 20th. century. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Eaton, Richard M. 'Approaches to the study of conversion to Islam in India.' In Richard C. Martin (ed.), Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. Keddie, Nikki. 'The past and present of women in the Muslim world.' The Journal of World History 1:77-108, 1990. Voll, John Obert. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1982. Waldman, Marilyn R. with Robert M. Baum. 'Innovation as renovation: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

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© 1992 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
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1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006692X00446
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164 historical study of religious change. Could one more profitably focus on tensions between diffusion and translation, rather than on contrasts between them? Might one ask how it is that so much 'translation' occurs when it is theoretically unacceptable, and how it is that 'diffusion' takes place when 'translation' is so enthusiastically supported? Can one adequately assess the tension between diffusion and translation by focusing so narrowly on scrip- tural translation? Can one develop interpretive theoretical frameworks that are more heuristic than categorical, and that make as much of a place as possible for historical and cultural context? WORKS CITED Clarke, Peter B. West Africa and Islam. A study of religious development from the 8th. to the 20th. century. London: Edward Arnold, 1982. Eaton, Richard M. 'Approaches to the study of conversion to Islam in India.' In Richard C. Martin (ed.), Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. Keddie, Nikki. 'The past and present of women in the Muslim world.' The Journal of World History 1:77-108, 1990. Voll, John Obert. Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1982. Waldman, Marilyn R. with Robert M. Baum. 'Innovation as renovation:

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