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.
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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.
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.
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