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Manichaean Delirium
Decolonizing the Judiciary and Islamic Renewal in the Sudan, 1898-1985
Inbunden, 2008
2616 kr
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The book uses the concept of the "Manichaean" geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces …
Jinn Eviction as a Discourse of Power
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moroccan Magical Beliefs and Practices
Inbunden, 2007
2260 kr
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This book is intended to construct a basis for the understanding of the rites and practices associated with exorcism, or jinn eviction as it is performed within the maraboutic institution called zawiya. Jinn eviction as it occurs in the maraboutic institution reproduces ideologies and social …
Renewers of the Age
Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir
Av Scott Reese
Inbunden, 2008
2088 kr
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Studies of nineteenth and twentieth century Islamic reform have tended to focus more on the evolution of ideas than how those ideas emerge from local contexts or are disseminated to a broad audience. Using the urban culture of southern Somalia, known as the Benaadir, this book explores the role of …
Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State
Ceremony and Symbols of Authority: 1882-1898
Av Kim Searcy
Inbunden, 2010
2081 kr
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This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used …
Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
Av Cleo Cantone
Inbunden, 2012
3078 kr
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This book constitutes a seminal contribution to the fields of Islamic architectural history and gender studies. It is the first major empirical study of the history and current state of mosque building in Senegal and the first study of mosque space from a gender perspective. The author positions …
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
Reactions and Responses
Av John A. Chesworth, Franz Kogelmann
Inbunden, 2013
2635 kr
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Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: in Sudan where total Sharīʿa was applied until recently; in Nigeria where …
Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)
Ripples of Reform
Av Anne K. Bang
Inbunden, 2014
2283 kr
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In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of …
West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina
Jawāb al-Ifrῑqῑ - The Response of the African
Av Chanfi Ahmed
Inbunden, 2015
2283 kr
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Chanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is …
Living Knowledge in West African Islam
The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse
Inbunden, 2015
2531 kr
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Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d.1975, Senegal). With millions of followers throughout Africa and the world, the community arguably represents one of the twentieth century’s most successful Islamic …
Arabic Historical Literature from Ghadāmis and Mali
Documents from the 18th to 20th Century
Inbunden, 2019
2214 kr
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In this work translations of four texts are provided from Ghadāmis and from Mali. The first is a biography of the Ghadāmisī scholar ʿAbdallāh b. Abī Bakr al-Ghadāmisī (1626–1719 AD), written by the eighteenth-century author Ibn Muhalhil al-Ghadāmisī. A second text is “The History of al-Sūq”, …
Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th-Century Central Sudanic Africa
Inbunden, 2016
2518 kr
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The seventeenth century was a period of major social change in central sudanic Africa. Islam spread from royal courts to rural communities, leading to new identities, new boundaries and new tasks for experts of the religion. Addressing these issues, the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī acquired an …
Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa
Sittī ‘Alawiyya, the Uncrowned Queen
Inbunden, 2017
1944 kr
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In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative …
“They Love Us Because We Give Them Zakāt"
The Distribution of Wealth and the Making of Social Relations in Northern Nigeria
Inbunden, 2020
2192 kr
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In ‘They Love Us Because We Give Them’ Zakāt, Dauda Abubakar describes the practice of Zakāt in northern Nigeria. Those who practice this pillar of Islam annually deduct Zakāt from their wealth and distribute it to the poor and needy people within their vicinity, mostly their friends, relatives and …
Sciences et confréries soufies au Sénégal
Approches nouvelles de la violence et de la démocratie
Av El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
Inbunden, 2022
2022 kr
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L’islam ouest-africain compte plusieurs confréries soufies notamment au Nord-Nigeria, au Niger et au Sénégal, des pays où la Tijāniyya occupe une place importante dans la sphère publique. Dans la première partie de ce livre, par une perspective comparatiste utilisant les concepts de démocratie, de …
In This Fragile World
Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
Av Ustadh Mahmoud Mau, Annachiara Raia m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2215 kr
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The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against …
Muslim Empowerment in Ghana
Analysing the Spectrum of Muslim Social Mobilization during the Internet Age
Av Holger Weiss
Inbunden, 2024
1915 kr
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This book is the first ‘groundwork’ on Muslim NGOs in contemporary Ghana. It builds upon a database of more than 600 Muslim non-profit associations, foundations and grass-roots organisations whose activities are traced through extensive use of social media. The first part of the book scrutinises …
