Benin
- Title
- Benin
- list of authors
- Denise Brégand
- Abstract
- Northern and southern Benin (formerly Dahomey), which lie in different economic and cultural areas, have been traversed since early times by merchants and by the alfas (a local term for Islamic scholar) who accompanied them and introduced Islam. Islam arrived in the north beginning in the tenth/sixteenth century, or at the end of the eighth/fourteenth, but was not established permanently along the coast until the nineteenth century. Muslim merchants from the north are first mentioned, in 1116/1704, by the Chevalier des …
- Book Title
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
- edition
- 3
- Place of Publication
- Leiden
- Publisher
- Brill
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- Anglais
- Spatial Coverage
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Bénin