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Permanent Pilgrims : The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan / C Bawa Yamba.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748605927
  • 9781474473699
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The history of West African migration to Sudan -- Chapter 3 The rural dwellers: moral virtues, secular constraints -- Chapter 4 The urban dwellers: landlords, clients, fakis and beggars -- Chapter 5 The Islamic pilgrimage and the West African subculture in Sudan -- Chapter 6 Divine design and its consequences for the achievement of pilgrimage in this life -- Chapter 7 The pilgrimage as a paradigm for life -- Appendix I: In the field -- Appendix II: Some brief biographical notes on the key informants quoted in the test -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: West African pilgrims in Sudan believe that walking across the savannas and desert is the only proper way of performing the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. However, their journey appears to stop halfway in Sudan, where many of them reside in stranger enclaves as fourth- and fifth-generation immigrants. Describing themselves as transients, they see these villages as temporary stations on their way to Mecca. This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained. It examines why these people allow themselves to live in a state of permanent transition, and argues that here pilgrimage is a symbolic journey analogous to life itself.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The history of West African migration to Sudan -- Chapter 3 The rural dwellers: moral virtues, secular constraints -- Chapter 4 The urban dwellers: landlords, clients, fakis and beggars -- Chapter 5 The Islamic pilgrimage and the West African subculture in Sudan -- Chapter 6 Divine design and its consequences for the achievement of pilgrimage in this life -- Chapter 7 The pilgrimage as a paradigm for life -- Appendix I: In the field -- Appendix II: Some brief biographical notes on the key informants quoted in the test -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index

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West African pilgrims in Sudan believe that walking across the savannas and desert is the only proper way of performing the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. However, their journey appears to stop halfway in Sudan, where many of them reside in stranger enclaves as fourth- and fifth-generation immigrants. Describing themselves as transients, they see these villages as temporary stations on their way to Mecca. This book examines life in a set of pilgrim villages to show how the concept of pilgrimage is maintained. It examines why these people allow themselves to live in a state of permanent transition, and argues that here pilgrimage is a symbolic journey analogous to life itself.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)