o:id
	12659
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12659
o:resource_template
	Book chapter
o:resource_class
	bibo:Chapter
dcterms:title
	Benin
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25172
dcterms:date
	2014
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8440
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113954701 Q113954701
	iwac-reference-0000534
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:alternative
	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
dcterms: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 …
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/283
dcterms:provenance
	Leiden
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1465
bibo:editorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1348
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1340
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1332
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1345
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1334
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24014 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_24014
bibo:edition
	3

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