o:id
	5003
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5003
o:resource_template
	Journal article
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	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	The Development of Wahhabi Reforms in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960-1990: Elective Affinities between Western-Educated Muslims and Islamic Scholars
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25050
dcterms:date
	2009
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113524320 Q113524320
	iwac-reference-0000023
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	This essay examines the relationship between Western notions of modernity and Wahhabi-inclined Islamic reform in Ghana and Burkina Faso (Upper Volta until 1984) during the early decades of independence. I will highlight ways in which Western/secular education facilitated the early diffusion of this genre of reform. Over the past decade or so, historians have explored the extent to which the appeal of the Wahhabi movement in urban West Africa, toward the end of French and British colonialism, can be traced to Muslim attempts to find a middle ground between Western "modernity" and authentic spiritual purity. In what follows, I employ comparative, ethnographic, and historical analyses to draw attention to the pivotal roles Western-educated urban Muslim professionals played in the development of this reform. Despite the active participation of these professionals in transforming the Wahhabi message into urban mass movements, scholars have paid scant attention to the factors that drew them to the Wahhabi doctrine in the first instance.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/546
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1245
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417509000218 10.1017/S0010417509000218
bibo:issue
	3
bibo:pageEnd
	532
bibo:pageStart
	502
bibo:volume
	51

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