id 5113 Url https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/5113 Modèle de ressource Journal article Classe de ressource bibo:AcademicArticle Titre The Production of Islamic Identities Through Knowledge Claims in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire Editeur https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/25011 Date 1999 Type https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8475 Identifiant https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113531144 Q113531144 iwac-reference-0000096 Langue https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/8322 Résumé In the past 30 years, in Côte d'Ivoire, Islamic institutions have significantly changed in scope and magnitude, leading to the emergence of new practices and definitions of Islam. In the context of these transformations, young Muslims have acquired a growing public voice in the definition of Muslimhood through the growth of neighbourhood-based Islamic youth associations and Franco-Arabic schools (madersas). In the city of Bouaké, Islamic practices are divided between Wahhabiyya and non-Wahhabiyya, as well as between ‘syncretic' and ‘Arabized' notions. In a context of competing sources and notions of Islamic knowledge, young Muslim men and women's claims of legitimacy are made through modalities of schooling. These young people assert an Arabized version of Islam based on the formal acquisition of the Arabic language, allowing for the reading and understanding of the Qur'an in Arabic. This article argues that knowledge claims made by young Muslims allow them to reckon with local power relations embedded in gerontocracy, as well as the social divisions brought about by ancestral ties and ethnicity. This argument needs to be connected with the history of Qur'anic and Western-style schooling in Côte d'Ivoire, highlighting the differing locales of knowledge acquisition as well as the competing forms of knowledge, ranging from mnemonic knowledge to Western-style classroom teaching. The empirical data presented here were gathered in neighbourhood-based Islamic youth associations and madersas between 1992 and 1995, and in 1998. Couverture spatiale https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/298 Liste des auteurs https://islam.zmo.de/s/afrique_ouest/item/1294 Doi https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008064 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008064 Numéro 393 Dernière page 508 Première page 485 Volume 98 --