Publications

Publications

Books (Peer-Reviewed)

2018. Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Articles and Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

2025. “Technologies of Self-Wrapping: Female Chanters in the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Community in Senegal.” Religions 16 (4): 423. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16040423.

2022. “Des mères qui sont des hommes : nouvelles autorités féminines au Sénégal.” In Le Sahel musulman entre soufisme et salafisme : subalternité, luttes de classement et transnationalisme, edited by Jean Schmitz, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh, and Cédric Jourde, 317-344. Terres et gens d’islam. Paris: IISMM-Karthala.

2021. “Islam and the Question of Gender.” In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa, edited by Terje Østebø, 123–42. London: Routledge.

2019. “Women Who Are Men: Shaykha Maryam Niasse and the Qur’an in Dakar.” In Approaches to the Qur’an in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Zulfikar Hirji, 369–400. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2017. “Charismatic Discipleship: A Sufi Woman and the Divine Mission of Development in Senegal.” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 87 (4): 832–852.

2017. “A Mystical Cosmopolitanism: Sufi Hip-Hop and the Aesthetics of Islam in Dakar.” Culture and Religion 18:4.

2016. “God’s Name Is Not a Game: Performative Apologetics in Sufi Dhikr Performance in Senegal.” Journal for Islamic Studies 35: 133–162.

2016. “‘Baay Is the Spiritual Leader of the Rappers’: Performing Islamic Reasoning in SenegaleseSufi Hip-Hop.” Contemporary Islam 10 (2).

2016. “Entrepreneurial Discipleship: Cooking Up Women’s Sufi Leadership in Dakar.” In Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa, edited by Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea E. Schulz, 58–80. London: Routledge.

2014. “Picturing Islamic Authority: Gender Metaphors and Sufi Leadership in Senegal.” Islamic Africa 5 (2): 275–315.

2014. Britta Frede and Joseph Hill. “Introduction: En-Gendering Islamic Authority in West Africa.” Islamic Africa 5 (2): 131–165.

2014. Britta Frede and Joseph Hill, eds. En-gendering Islamic Authority in West Africa. Special issue of Islamic Africa 5 (2).

2013. Hill, Joseph. 2013. “Sovereign Islam in a Secular State: Hidden Knowledge and Sufi Governance among‘Taalibe Baay.’” In Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal, edited by Mamadou Diouf, 99–124. New York: Columbia University Press.

2012. “The Cosmopolitan Sahara: Building a Global Islamic Village in Mauritania.” City & Society 24.1: 62–83.

2011. “Languages of Islam: Hybrid Genres of Taalibe Baay Oratory in Senegal.” Islamic Africa 2.1: 67-104.

2010. “‘All Women Are Guides’: Sufi Leadership and Womanhood among Taalibe Baay in Senegal.” Journal of Religion in Africa 40.4: 375-412.

Academic Publications (Editor-reviewed)

2019. Review of Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty by Hannah Hoechner. American Ethnologist 46 (4): 540–41. 

2019. “Sufism Between Past and Modernity.” In Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, edited by Mark Woodward and Ronald Lukens-Bull, 1–26. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.

2019 Hill, Joseph, Jeanette S. Jouili, Kendra Salois, Wind Dell Woods, and Joshua Edelman. “Forum: Religion, Renovation, Rap & Hip Hop.” Performance, Religion, and Spirituality 2 (1): 57–84.

2018. “Foundational Scholars of Islam in Africa: An Interview with Professor Louis Brenner.” Islamic Africa 9: 233–255.

2018. Review of Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal, by Laura L. Cochrane. American Anthropologist, 120 (3): 616–17.

2013. “Niasse, Mariama Ibrahim.” Edited by John L. Esposito. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/opr/t343/e0087.

2006. “Sufi Specialists and Globalizing Charisma: Religious Knowledge and Authority among Disciples of Baay Ñas.” In Local Practices, Global Controversies: Islam in Sub-Saharan African Contexts, edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, 69–99. New Haven: MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Dissertation

2007. Divine Knowledge and Islamic Authority: Religious Specialization among Disciples of Baay Ñas. Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.