id
	5109
Url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/5109
Modèle de ressource
	Journal article
Classe de ressource
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Titre
	A Comparison of Muslims as Minorities in the Volta Region, Ghana, the Côte d'Ivoire and Among the Yoruba of Nigeria in West Africa
Editeur
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25087
Date
	1991
Type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475
Identifiant
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115705780 Q115705780
	iwac-reference-0000092
Langue
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322
Résumé
	There are many ways one might approach the study of Muslims as minorities in a given region. One theme of this paper on Muslim minorities in West Africa is Muslim involvement in artistic traditions both on an individual and a group level. This is illustrated with the case of Lamidi Fakeye, a Muslim Yoruba carver living in Nigeria. Fakeye is adamant that maintaining and enriching the artistic traditions of his people need not be incompatible with life as a pious Muslim. A second theme of this paper is stability and transformation in communities where Muslims as minorities live either in orthopraxis (upright practice) or in a 'mixed' state. This theme is illustrated with the cases of the city of Bonduku, located in the Akan State of Gyaman which today lies in eastern Côte d'Ivoire, where Muslim minority communities moved towards orthopraxis, and Bole, located northeast of Bonduku in the Gonja State, which is today in northern Ghana. Bole is an example of a Muslim community which sought to establish orthopraxis in an independent community, but failed. Attention is paid to one other pattern of relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims which is known today in the area west of the Black Volta region, where Muslims are involved in masking cults ('gbain'), which are used as mechanisms for controlling antisocial behaviour.
Couverture spatiale
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/298
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/319
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/541
Liste des auteurs
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1778
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/02666959108716217 10.1080/02666959108716217
Numéro
	2
Dernière page
	463
Première page
	449
Volume
	12

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