o:id
	15709
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15709
o:resource_template
	Book
o:resource_class
	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25174
dcterms:date
	2009
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113955194 Q113955194
	iwac-reference-0000737
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Exploring the history and religious community of a group of Muslim Sufi mystics who came largely from socially marginal backgrounds in colonial French West Africa, this study shows the relationship between religious, social, and economic change in the region. It highlights the role that intellectuals - including not only elite men, but also women, slaves, and the poor - played in shaping social and cultural change and illuminates the specific religious ideas on which Muslims drew and the political contexts that gave their efforts meaning. In contrast to depictions that emphasize the importance of international networks and anti-modern reaction in twentieth-century Islamic reform, this book claims that, in West Africa, such movements were driven by local forces and constituted only the most recent round in a set of centuries-old debates about the best way for pious people to confront social injustice. It argues that traditional historical methods prevent an appreciation of Muslim intellectual history in Africa by misunderstanding the nature of information gathering during colonial rule and misconstruing the relationship between documents and oral history.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
dcterms:provenance
	Cambridge
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1753
bibo:numPages
	311

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