"To Never Shed Blood": Yacouba Sylla, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Islamic Modernization in Côte d'Ivoire
- Title
- "To Never Shed Blood": Yacouba Sylla, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Islamic Modernization in Côte d'Ivoire
- list of authors
- Sean Hanretta
- Abstract
- After an ill-fated religious revival, the Sufi teacher Yacouba Sylla and his followers became wealthy and politically influential in post-Second World War Côte d'Ivoire. They argued for an understanding of democratization and development that defined both ideas in terms of their community's own mystical experiences and world-historical significance, rather than in terms of modernity. As a way of making sense of their own past and defending their place in an increasingly tense political environment, these efforts achieved their most explicit articulation in a powerful story about Yacouba Sylla's refusal of a gift from Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
- Journal
- The Journal of African History
- volume
- 49
- issue
- 2
- page start
- 281
- page end
- 304
- Date
- 2008
- Language
- Anglais
- Type
- Article de revue
- Spatial Coverage
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Côte d'Ivoire