id
	5003
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/5003
Modèle de ressource
	Journal article
Classe de ressource
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Titre
	The Development of Wahhabi Reforms in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960-1990: Elective Affinities between Western-Educated Muslims and Islamic Scholars
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25050
Date
	2009
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113524320 Q113524320
	iwac-reference-0000023
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	This essay examines the relationship between Western notions of modernity and Wahhabi-inclined Islamic reform in Ghana and Burkina Faso (Upper Volta until 1984) during the early decades of independence. I will highlight ways in which Western/secular education facilitated the early diffusion of this genre of reform. Over the past decade or so, historians have explored the extent to which the appeal of the Wahhabi movement in urban West Africa, toward the end of French and British colonialism, can be traced to Muslim attempts to find a middle ground between Western "modernity" and authentic spiritual purity. In what follows, I employ comparative, ethnographic, and historical analyses to draw attention to the pivotal roles Western-educated urban Muslim professionals played in the development of this reform. Despite the active participation of these professionals in transforming the Wahhabi message into urban mass movements, scholars have paid scant attention to the factors that drew them to the Wahhabi doctrine in the first instance.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/546
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1245
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417509000218 10.1017/S0010417509000218
Numéro
	3
Dernière page
	532
Première page
	502
Volume
	51

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