A cultural history of pedagogy in Muslim West Africa reaching from the medieval and early modern periods into the present. Ware offers a ground-level exploration of how religious epistemology configured human corporeality in West Africa through the concept of the "walking Quran," and how this conceptualization played into revolutionary, abolitionist, and anticolonial movements without reliance upon Western discourses of the same. The work engages the study of religion, embodiment, Islam, West Africa, abolitionism, and anticolonialism.