| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
|
|
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. Part 1. Making of a Lebanese community in Senegal -- Introduction to Part 1. French colonial manipulation and Lebanese survival -- Senegalese independence and the question of belonging -- Shiʻi Islam comes to town: a biography of Shaykh al-Zayn -- Bringing Lebanese "back" to Shiʻi Islam -- Part 2. Senegalese conversion to Shiʻi Islam. Vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict -- Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences -- Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam" -- Creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam -- Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism. |
| Summary |
Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi'i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi'i hostility, demonstrating that religious coexistence is possible in a context such as Senegal. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Shīʻah -- Senegal.
|
|
Shīʻah. |
|
Senegal. |
|
Shiites -- Senegal.
|
|
Shiites. |
|
Lebanese -- Senegal -- Religion.
|
|
Lebanese. |
|
Religion. |
|
Lebanon -- Emigration and immigration.
|
|
Lebanon. |
|
Emigration and immigration. |
|
Conversion -- Shīʻah.
|
|
Conversion. |
|
Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites.
|
|
Relations. |
|
Sunnites. |
|
Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
|
|
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Leichtman, Mara. Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa 0253016053 (DLC) 2014048975 |
| ISBN |
0253016053 (electronic book) |
|
9780253016058 (electronic book) |
|
9780253015990 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
|
0253015995 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780253016010 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
|
0253016010 (pb ; alkaline paper) |
|
