Islam And Muslim Life In West Africa

Author : Abdoulaye Sounaye,André Chappatte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110733358

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Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa by Abdoulaye Sounaye,André Chappatte Pdf

The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.

Author : Zachary Valentine Wright
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004289468

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Living Knowledge in West African Islam by Zachary Valentine Wright Pdf

Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the Muslim community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal). The realization of Islam was achieved through the enduring West African practice of learning in the physical presence of exemplary masters.

Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315295442

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Islam in West Africa by Nehemia Levtzion Pdf

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Author : John Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Islam
ISBN : UCSC:32106009069466

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Islam in West Africa by John Spencer Trimingham Pdf

Author : Dorothea E. Schulz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253223623

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Muslims and New Media in West Africa by Dorothea E. Schulz Pdf

Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves.

Author : John Ralph Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781315297323

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Studies in West African Islamic History by John Ralph Willis Pdf

First published in 1979, this first of three volumes examines the many means and figures through which Islam was cultivated in West Africa over a prolonged period. It combines the work from eminent scholars in the field, most of which have travelled widely in the historic region of Western Sudan. This book will be of interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Author : Dorothea E. Schulz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253357151

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Muslims and New Media in West Africa by Dorothea E. Schulz Pdf

Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves.

Author : Adeline Masquelier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253003461

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Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town by Adeline Masquelier Pdf

In the small town of Dogondoutchi, Niger, Malam Awal, a charismatic Sufi preacher, was recruited by local Muslim leaders to denounce the practices of reformist Muslims. Malam Awal's message has been viewed as a mixed blessing by Muslim women who have seen new definitions of Islam and Muslim practice impact their place and role in society. This study follows the career of Malam Awal and documents the engagement of women in the religious debates that are refashioning their everyday lives. Adeline Masquelier reveals how these women have had to define Islam on their own terms, especially as a practice that governs education, participation in prayer, domestic activities, wedding customs, and who wears the veil and how. Masquelier's richly detailed narrative presents new understandings of what it means to be a Muslim woman in Africa today.

Author : Rudolph Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474439799

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Islam in West Africa by Rudolph Ware Pdf

Africa is likely the only continent with a Muslim majority. More than a quarter of the world's 1.7 billion Muslims live in Africa, and Islam is the religion of more than 200 million West Africans. When and how did this come to be? How has the acceptance of Islam by West Africans shaped their history? And, conversely, how have West Africans shaped Islamic thought and practice? This book provides answers by exploring-from an internal perspective-what it has meant to be a West African Muslim. It charts the past from within Islam as a system of religious meaning, showing how West Africans have utilized the doctrines and dogmas of the faith to shape history. By focusing on theology and history, this book shows how ordinary men and women have made the core principles and practices of Islam meaningful.

Author : Ousman Kobo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004233133

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Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms by Ousman Kobo Pdf

In this book Ousman Kobo analyzes the origins of Wahhabi-inclined reform movements in two West African countries. Commonly associated with recent Middle Eastern influences, reform movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso actually began during the twilight of European colonial rule in the 1950s and developed from local doctrinal contests over Islamic orthodoxy. These early movements in turn gradually evolved in ways sympathetic to Wahhabi ideas. Kobo also illustrates the modernism of this style of Islamic reform. The decisive factor for most of the movements was the alliance of secularly educated Muslim elites with Islamic scholars to promote a self-consciously modern religiosity rooted in the Prophet Muhammad’s traditions. This book therefore provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of “Wahhabism.”

Author : Christopher Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521541123

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France and Islam in West Africa, 1860-1960 by Christopher Harrison Pdf

A major contribution to the social, political and intellectual history of the French West African Federation.

Author : Sean Hanretta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899710

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Islam and Social Change in French West Africa by Sean Hanretta Pdf

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.

Author : Chanfi Ahmed
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004291942

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West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina by Chanfi Ahmed Pdf

This book brings a new perspective on the history of the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine since the conquest of the Ḥijāz by Ibn Saʿūd in 1926. It also shows the contribution of a network of ʿulamāʾ from West Africa, South Asia and Egypt in the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine inside and outside Saudi Arabia since 1926.

Author : John Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000114396

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A History of Islam in West Africa by John Spencer Trimingham Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola,Biodun Adediran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039712695

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Islam and Christianity in West Africa by Toyin Falola,Biodun Adediran Pdf