o:id
	15745
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/15745
o:resource_template
	Book
o:resource_class
	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
dcterms:subject
	Islamic modernism
	reform
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25191
dcterms:date
	2016
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116170145 Q116170145
	iwac-reference-0000745
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local context to explain the different trajectories of development.

The book studies the social, religious and political impact of these reform movements in both historical and contemporary times and asks why some have become successful as popular mass movements, while others failed to attract substantial audiences. It also considers jihad-minded movements in contemporary Mali, northern Nigeria and Somalia and looks at modes of transnational entanglement of movements of reform. Against the background of a general inquiry into what constitutes ‘reform’, the text responds to the question of what ‘reform’ actually means for Muslims in contemporary Africa.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/541
dcterms:provenance
	Edinburgh
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1696
bibo:numPages
	549

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