Islam And Social Change In French West Africa

Author : Sean Hanretta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 1107202477

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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 who came largely from socially marginal backgrounds 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 - including not only elite men, but also women, slaves, and the poor - played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas on which Muslims drew and the 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. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (April 24, 2012).

Author : Sean Hanretta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0511517408

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

Author : Christopher Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : 41,8 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 : Lansiné Kaba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015000649866

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The Wahhabiyya; Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa by Lansiné Kaba Pdf

Author : Louis Brenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006064336

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Muslim Identity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa by Louis Brenner Pdf

"This volume is indispensable to anyone who wants to understand current trends in Islam in Africa." --MESA Bulletin "A must read for anyone interested in Muslim identity and social change in sub-Saharan Africa." --Religious Studies Review "The Brenner volume... develops a broader range of issues... [on] African Muslim communities than any existing study." --John Hanson These essays constitute a timely exploration of the dynamism of Islam as a force for shaping identity and for social and political change across Africa today.

Author : Louis Brenner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253339170

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Controlling Knowledge by Louis Brenner Pdf

"I know of no one who has taken such an ambitious swath of time and done such a good job of showing the continuity and change across those one hundred years. . . . a splendid achievement, the result of decades of research and reflection." —David Robinson Controlling Knowledge examines the history of West African Muslim society in the Republic of Mali, formerly the Soudan Français, in the 20th century. Focusing on the transformation of Muslim institutions—especially modernized Muslim schools (médersas) and voluntary organizations—over the past hundred years, Louis Brenner uncovers the social and political processes that have produced new forms, definitions, and expressions of Islam that are patently different from those that prevailed a century earlier. Brenner's study shows that Muslim society in Mali is religiously pluralistic and that it has developed different ways of relating religious obligations to prevailing social and political conditions. Although they were heavily influenced by French and Middle Eastern models, Brenner demonstrates that it was in opposition to French colonial authority that the first médersas and voluntary associations appeared. The complex array of power relations within which these institutions evolved, under French colonial rule and in the postcolonial secularist state, is revealed in this thoughtful book. Controlling Knowledge makes a major contribution to our understanding of Muslim history in Mali and West Africa, both in recent decades and over the long term.

Author : Lamin O. Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199351619

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Beyond Jihad by Lamin O. Sanneh Pdf

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

Author : Florian Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512838

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Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 by Florian Wagner Pdf

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Author : John Spencer Trimingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:609724761

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Islam in West Africa by John Spencer Trimingham Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke III
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957992

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The Ethnographic State by Edmund Burke III Pdf

Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, "Moroccan Islam." However, this pathbreaking study reveals that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers who were influenced by British colonial practices in India. Between 1900 and 1920, these researchers compiled a social inventory of Morocco that in turn led to the emergence of a new object of study, Moroccan Islam, and a new field, Moroccan studies. In the process, they resurrected the monarchy and reinvented Morocco as a modern polity. This is an important contribution for scholars and readers interested in questions of orientalism and empire, colonialism and modernity, and the invention of traditions.

Author : William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119063575

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A Companion to African History by William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe Pdf

Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.

Author : Nehemia Levtzion,Randall Lee Pouwels
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015042471550

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The History of Islam in Africa by Nehemia Levtzion,Randall Lee Pouwels Pdf

The history of the Islamic faith in Africa spans 14 centuries. This book provides a detailed mapping of the cultural, political, geographic and religious past of Islam in a single volume. Intended as a reference and textbook, it does not assume prior knowledge of the subject.

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474414913

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Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa by Roman Loimeier Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan AfricaBased on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local context to explain the different trajectories of development.The book studies the social, religious and political impact of these reform movements in both historical and contemporary times and asks why some have become successful as popular mass movements, while others failed to attract substantial audiences. It also considers jihad-minded movements in contemporary Mali, northern Nigeria and Somalia and looks at modes of transnational entanglement of movements of reform. Against the background of a general inquiry into what constitutes areform, the text responds to the question of what areform actually means for Muslims in contemporary Africa.Key featuresBiographies of reformist scholars complement the textCase studies are placed in the context of the dynamics of areform in the larger world of IslamAddresses the importance of trans-national entanglements and their formative powerFocuses on the dynamics of social and religious development, the political dynamics of Islamic areform and issues of youth, generational change and gender

Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484

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African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.