<html>  <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>Marie Miran</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="network 011, default"> <meta name="Microsoft Border" content="lb, default"> </head>  <body background="_themes/network/netbkgnd.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0066CC" vlink="#999999" alink="#669999"><!--msnavigation--><table dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="1%"><!--mstheme--><font face="trebuchet ms, Arial, Helvetica">  <p>&nbsp;</p> <p> <img border="0" src="_borders/Library%20collection.JPG" width="171" height="137" alt="The picture here is of a row of bookshelves in the History section of the SOAS library. The angle is taken midsection, so that the bookshelves appear on both sides of the picture. Line after line of books are displayed. 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Triaud and D. Robinson      (eds.), La Tijaniyya en Afrique subsaharienne. Une confrrie musulmane  la      conqute de l'Afrique (Karthala 2000); 'Le wahhabisme  Abidjan: Dynamisme      urbain d'un islam rformiste en Cte d'Ivoire contemporaine (1960-1996)'      Islam et Socits au Sud du Sahara 12 (1998).<br> &nbsp;</font></font><p><!--mstheme--></font><!--msnavigation--></td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table><!--msnavigation--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><!--mstheme--><font face="trebuchet ms, Arial, Helvetica">  <p align="right">&nbsp;</p>  <!--mstheme--></font></td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table></body>  </html> 
