TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yamba,C Bawa
TI  - Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan 
T2  - International African Library : IAL
SN  - 9780748605927
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - African Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473699
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474473699
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474473699/original
ER  -