Islamic Education in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast

Titre

Islamic Education in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast

liste des auteurs

Marie Nathalie LeBlanc

Issouf Binaté

Résumé

The West African territory that would eventually become Côte d’Ivoire was long considered a land where Islam was destined to remain marginal. This perspective was based on the region’s social and geographic characteristics, namely a southern forest region tending more toward African “traditional” religion but increasingly Christianized, and a Muslim population limited to some parts of the northern region. By contrast, early twentieth-century research undertaken by Paul Marty (...

Book Title

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection

Place of Publication

Oxford

Editeur

Oxford University Press

Langue

Anglais

Type

Chapitre de livre

Identifiant

Q114295584

iwac-reference-0000368

Couverture spatiale

Côte d'Ivoire