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Islamic and Caste Knowledge Practices among Haalpulaaren in Senegal : Between Mosque and Termite Mound /
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748619900);This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal. The Islamic uprising of the 1770s, which established a class of Islamic clerics in positions of auth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | International African Library : IAL
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of figures
- Preface
- Note on transcription and orthography
- Maps
- 1 The Mosque and the Termite Mound
- 2 Ranks and Categories: The Emergence of a Haalpulaar Social Division of Labour
- 3 Historical Origins and Social Pedigrees of Craftsmen and Musicians: Genealogies of Power and Knowledge of the Wild
- 4 The White and the Black: Ideology and the Rise to Dominance of the Islamic Clerics
- 5 Accommodationist Sufi Islam and Rites of Passage: Tensions and Ambiguities
- 6 The Witch-Hunter and the Marabout: Competing Domains of Knowledge and Power
- 7 The Power of the Word: The Oral and the Written
- 8 Islamic Reformers, Islamists and the Muslim Community
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index