Sean Hanretta

Islam and Social Change in French West Africa (eBook, PDF)

History of an Emancipatory Community

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511512650
• Artikelnr.: 38214501

Autorenporträt

Sean Hanretta is currently Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He received a B.A. in history from the Colorado College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin. He has published research on precolonial Zulu history, on mining camps in the Belgian Congo and on the history of Islam in West Africa. His work has appeared in the Journal of African History and Comparative Studies in Society and History. His current research focuses on wedding and funeral reform efforts among Muslims in Ghana.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. '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 II. '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 III. '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': Yocouba, Houphouët, and Côte d'Ivoire.