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Author Wright, Zachary Valentine.

Title Living knowledge in West African Islam : the sufi community of Ibrahim Niasse / by Zachary Valentine Wright.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Islam in Africa
Islam in Africa.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Theoretical considerations -- Macrohistory -- Habitus -- Embodiment and subjectivity -- Literature review -- Narrative structure of the book -- Clerical communities in West African history -- Enduring learning practices -- Islamic jurisprudence of the Maliki School -- Qurʼan learning -- Esoteric sciences -- Sufism -- Muslim scholars in West African social history -- The Jihad of Ma Ba Diakhou -- The social appeal of the new Marabout communities -- A new Senegambian clerical community -- The Niassene: social and intellectual background -- Ibrahim Niasse and the "Community of the Flood" -- Honored disciples: the Cisse of the Saloum -- ʻAbdallah Niasse and the Cisse of Diossong -- ʻAli Cisse and paradigmatic discipleship -- Knowing God -- On spiritual training -- Being filled with God -- The Prophet Muḥammad, Mirror of God -- Aḥmad al-Tijani and divine cognizance -- Understanding sufi discipleship -- Assuring the aspirants -- Conduct of the disciple -- Qualities of the spiritual guide -- Disciple perspectives -- The Adaptation of traditional learning practices -- Maintaining the Sanad tradition -- Adopting the madrasa -- Maintaining the learning circles -- Strategies of structural adaptation -- Cognizance and the revival of the Islamic sciences -- Qurʼan learning and knowing God -- Sufism and Maliki jurisprudence in Medina-Baye -- The esoteric sciences and shaykh-disciple relations -- Divine cognizance and the Sufi orders in West Africa -- Islam and African decolonization: community solidarities and distinctions -- Islam and African liberation -- Islam and the postcolonial nation-state -- Pan-Africanism -- A vision of global Islamic solidarity.
Summary Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the Muslim community of Ibrahim Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal). The realization of Islam was achieved through the enduring West African practice of learning in the physical presence of exemplary masters.
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Subject Iniyās, Ibrāhīm.
Iniyās, Ibrāhīm, 1902-1975.
Sufism -- Africa, West -- History.
Sufism.
West Africa.
History.
Tijānīyah -- Africa, West -- History.
Tijānīyah.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wright, Zachary Valentine. Living knowledge in West African Islam 9789004288072 (DLC) 2014048661 (OCoLC)899073343
ISBN 9789004289468 electronic book
9004289461 electronic book
9789004288072
9004288074