Islamic Education in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast
- Titre
- Islamic Education in Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast
- 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
- Couverture spatiale
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Côte d'Ivoire
