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Islam and social change in French West Africa : history of an emancipatory community / Sean Hanretta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanretta, Sean, 1972- author.
- Series:
- African studies series ; 110.
- African studies ; 110
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sylla, Yacouba, 1906-1988--Influence.
- Sylla, Yacouba.
- Sufis--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- Sufis.
- Religious communities--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- Religious communities.
- Islam--Social aspects--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- Islam.
- Social change--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Social justice--Africa, West--History--20th century.
- Social justice.
- Africa, West--Religious life and customs.
- Africa, West.
- Africa, West--Social conditions--20th century.
- France--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.
- France.
- Africa, West--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Islam & Social Change in French West Africa
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas and political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.
- Contents:
- Sufism and status in the western Sudan
- Making a revival : Yacouba Sylla and his followers
- Making a community : the "Yacoubists" from 1930-2001
- Ghosts and the grain of the archives
- History in the Zâwiya : redemptive traditions
- Lost origins : women and spiritual equality
- The spiritual economy of emancipation
- The gift of work : devotion, hierarchy and labor
- "To never shed blood" : Yacouba, Houphouët, and Côte d'Ivoire
- Gifts of the past.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-20247-7
- 1-282-10384-9
- 9786612103841
- 0-511-57615-3
- 0-511-51789-0
- 0-511-51537-5
- 0-511-51435-2
- 0-511-51665-7
- OCLC:
- 609833168
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