Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal /

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 Musli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leichtman, Mara (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sunnites.
Shiites.
Shīʻah.
Interfaith relations.
Emigration and immigration.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Libanais > Senegal > Religion.
Chiites > Senegal.
Chiisme > Senegal.
Sunnites > Relations > Shīʻah.
Shīʻah > Relations > Sunnites.
Conversion > Shīʻah.
Lebanese > Senegal > Religion.
Shiites > Senegal.
Shīʿah > Senegal.
Senegal.
Lebanon.
Lebanon > Emigration and immigration.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Islam and politics
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. Part 1. The 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. The vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict
  • Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences
  • Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam"
  • The creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam
  • Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism.

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