Islamic and caste knowledge practices among Haalpulaaren in Senegal : between mosque and termite mound /

This book examines in historical perspective the hitherto little-studied relationship between Islam and caste among the Haalpulaaren of Senegal.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dilley, Roy, 1954-
Corporate Author: International African Institute
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, ©2004.
Series:International African library ; 30.
Subjects:
Tukulor (African people) > Religious life.
Tukulor (African people) > Social conditions.
Islam > Senegal.
Caste > Senegal.
Islam > Sénégal.
Castes > Sénégal.
RELIGION > Islam > Rituals & Practice.
Caste
Islam
Kaste
Senegal
Fulbe.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Mosque and the termite mound
  • Ranks and categories: the emergence of a Haalpulaar social division of labour
  • Historical origins and social pedigrees of craftsmen and musicians: genealogies of power and knowledge of the wild
  • The white and the black: ideology and the rise to dominance of the Islamic clerics
  • Accommodationist Sufi Islam and rites of passage: tensions and ambiguities
  • The witch-hunter and the marabout: competing domains of knowledge and power
  • The power of the word: the oral and the written
  • Islamic reformers, Islamists and the Muslim community.

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