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Author Hanretta, Sean, 1972-

Title Islam and social change in French West Africa : history of an emancipatory community / Sean Hanretta.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African studies ; 110
African studies series ; 110.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction ---- Part One. "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 Two. "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 Three. "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": Yacouba, Houphouet, and Côte d'Ivoire ---- Conclusions.
Summary Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics who came largely from socially marginal backgrounds 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 - including not only elite men, but also women, slaves, and the poor - played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas on which Muslims drew and the 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. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (April 24, 2012).
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Subject Sylla, Yacouba, 1906-1988 -- Influence.
Sylla, Yacouba, 1906-1988.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Sufis -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Sufis.
Muslims.
History.
West Africa.
Religious communities -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Religious communities.
Islam -- Social aspects -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Islam -- Social aspects.
Islam -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Islam.
Muslims -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Social change -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Social change.
Social justice -- Africa, West -- History -- 20th century.
Social justice.
Africa, West -- Religious life and customs.
Africa, West -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
France.
Colonies.
Africa.
Africa, West -- Colonial influence.
Colonial influence.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hanretta, Sean, 1972- Islam and social change in French West Africa. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2008043636
ISBN 9780511514357 (ebook)
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Standard No. 9786612103841