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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
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Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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| Summary |
"Typesetter: code used below Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Quran schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge. Today, many Muslims and non-Muslims find West African methods of Quran schooling puzzling and controversial. In fascinating detail, Ware introduces these practices from the viewpoint of the practitioners, explicating their emphasis on educating the whole human being as if to remake it as a living replica of the Quran. From this perspective, the transference of knowledge in core texts and rituals is literally embodied in people, helping shape them--like the Prophet of Islam--into vital bearers of the word of God."-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Ware documents the profound significance of Qurʼan schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Islam, the Qur'an school, and the Africans -- Education, embodiment, and epistemology -- Embodying Islam in West Africa : the making of a clerisy, ca. 1000-1770 -- Book in chains : slavery and revolution in Senegambia, 1770-1890 -- Bodies of knowledge : schooling, Sufism, and social change in colonial Senegal, 1890-1945 -- Disembodied knowledge? : "reform" and epistemology in Senegal, 1945-present -- Conclusion : The Qur'an school, the body, and the health of the Umma. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Qurʼan -- Study and teaching -- Africa, West.
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Qurʼan. |
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West Africa. |
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Qurʼan. |
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Koran. |
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Coran -- Étude et enseignement -- Afrique occidentale. |
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Islamic religious education -- Africa, West.
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Islamic religious education. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ware, Rudolph T. Walking Qurʼan 9781469614311 (DLC) 2013051122 (OCoLC)867851681 |
| ISBN |
9781469614328 (electronic book) |
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1469614324 (electronic book) |
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9781469614335 (electronic book) |
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1469614332 (electronic book) |
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9781469614311 |
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1469614316 |
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