o:id
	5109
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5109
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	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	A Comparison of Muslims as Minorities in the Volta Region, Ghana, the Côte d'Ivoire and Among the Yoruba of Nigeria in West Africa
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25087
dcterms:date
	1991
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115705780 Q115705780
	iwac-reference-0000092
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	There are many ways one might approach the study of Muslims as minorities in a given region. One theme of this paper on Muslim minorities in West Africa is Muslim involvement in artistic traditions both on an individual and a group level. This is illustrated with the case of Lamidi Fakeye, a Muslim Yoruba carver living in Nigeria. Fakeye is adamant that maintaining and enriching the artistic traditions of his people need not be incompatible with life as a pious Muslim. A second theme of this paper is stability and transformation in communities where Muslims as minorities live either in orthopraxis (upright practice) or in a 'mixed' state. This theme is illustrated with the cases of the city of Bonduku, located in the Akan State of Gyaman which today lies in eastern Côte d'Ivoire, where Muslim minority communities moved towards orthopraxis, and Bole, located northeast of Bonduku in the Gonja State, which is today in northern Ghana. Bole is an example of a Muslim community which sought to establish orthopraxis in an independent community, but failed. Attention is paid to one other pattern of relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims which is known today in the area west of the Black Volta region, where Muslims are involved in masking cults ('gbain'), which are used as mechanisms for controlling antisocial behaviour.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/319
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/541
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1778
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/02666959108716217 10.1080/02666959108716217
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	463
bibo:pageStart
	449
bibo:volume
	12

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