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Permanent Pilgrims : The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan /
West African pilgrims in Sudan believe that walking across the savannas and desert is the only proper way of performing the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. However, their journey appears to stop halfway in Sudan, where many of them reside in stranger enclaves as fourth- and fifth-generation immigrants....
| 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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The history of West African migration to Sudan
- Chapter 3 The rural dwellers: moral virtues, secular constraints
- Chapter 4 The urban dwellers: landlords, clients, fakis and beggars
- Chapter 5 The Islamic pilgrimage and the West African subculture in Sudan
- Chapter 6 Divine design and its consequences for the achievement of pilgrimage in this life
- Chapter 7 The pilgrimage as a paradigm for life
- Appendix I: In the field
- Appendix II: Some brief biographical notes on the key informants quoted in the test
- Glossary
- Notes
- References
- Index