ISBN:
978-0-521-15629-5
,
978-0-521-89971-0 /Hb.
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 311 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 110
Keywords:
Westafrika Sufismus
;
Geschichte
;
Islam
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Religion
;
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
;
Sylla, Yacouba [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
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. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on orthographic conventions -- Abbreviations used in references -- Introduction -- Part One: "The Suffering of Our Father": Story and Context -- 1. Sufism and Status in the Western Sudan -- 2. Making a Revival: Yacouba Sylla and His Followers -- 3. Making a Community: The "Yacoubists" from 1930 to 2001 -- Part Two: "I Will Prove to You That What I Say Is True": Knowledge and Colonial Rule -- 4. Ghosts and the Grain of the Archives -- 5. History in the Zawiya: Redemptive Traditions -- Part Three: "What Did He Give You?": Interpretation -- 6. Lost Origins: Women and Spiritual Equality -- 7. The Spiritual Economy of Emancipation -- 8. The Gift of Work: Devotion, Hierarchy, and Labor -- 9. "To Never Shed Blood": Yacouba, Houphouet, and Cote d'lvoire -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Note on References -- Index
Note:
"to hew the book out of the dissertation on which it is based." (Acknowledgements)
,
Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2003, entitled Constructing a religious community in French west Africa: the Hamawi Sufis of Yacouba Sylla
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