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Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa / ed. by Humphrey J. Fisher, Nehemia Levtzion.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781555870560
  • 9781685855826
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa: An Introductory Essay -- 2 Merchants vs. Scholars and Clerics in West Africa: Differential and Complementary Roles -- 3 The Economics of Islam in the Southern Sahara: The Rise of the Kunta Clan -- 4 The Shaykh's Men: Religion and Power in Senegambian Islam -- 5 Tcherno Aliou, the Wall of Goumba: Islam, Colonialism and the Rural Factor in Futa Jallon, 1867-1912 -- 6 Dyula and Sonongui Roles in the Islamization of the Region of Kong -- 7 Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Easing the Integration of Rural Women in Abidjan -- 8 Court and Periphery in Ethiopian Christianity -- 9 Liminality, Hijra and the City -- Index
Summary: Provides an expanded view of West African Islam, redressing the balance in the scholarly literature between urban and rural Islam.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685855826

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa: An Introductory Essay -- 2 Merchants vs. Scholars and Clerics in West Africa: Differential and Complementary Roles -- 3 The Economics of Islam in the Southern Sahara: The Rise of the Kunta Clan -- 4 The Shaykh's Men: Religion and Power in Senegambian Islam -- 5 Tcherno Aliou, the Wall of Goumba: Islam, Colonialism and the Rural Factor in Futa Jallon, 1867-1912 -- 6 Dyula and Sonongui Roles in the Islamization of the Region of Kong -- 7 Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Easing the Integration of Rural Women in Abidjan -- 8 Court and Periphery in Ethiopian Christianity -- 9 Liminality, Hijra and the City -- Index

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Provides an expanded view of West African Islam, redressing the balance in the scholarly literature between urban and rural Islam.

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. Mai 2023)