Fighting the greater jihad : Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 /
In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this sect in the West. Drawn from a wide variety of archival, oral, and iconographic sources in Arabic, French...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Islam, society, and power in the Wolof states
- The Mbakke: the foundations of family traditions
- The emergence of Amadu Bamba, 1853-95
- The founding of the Muridiyya
- Murid conflict with the French colonial administration, 1889-1902
- Slow path toward accommodation I: the time of rapprochement
- Slow path toward accommodation II: making Murid space in colonial Bawol
- Conclusion.