Eminent Yoruba Muslims is a collective biographies of some outstanding Yoruba Muslims of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. In this work, Oyeweso has documented, with uncanny historical objectivity, the lives and forces that shaped the growth of Islam among the Yoruba in the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Written with incisive clarity, Eminent Yoruba Muslims shows how the legacies of Yoruba Muslims in the 19th and the 20th centuries continue to influence the trajectories of Islam and Yoruba Muslims in the 21st century and beyond.