o:id
	5122
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5122
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	"Native" Conversion to Islam in Southern Côte d'Ivoire: The Perils of Double Identity
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25089
dcterms:date
	2012
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113531111 Q113531111
	iwac-reference-0000105
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	This article presents a synthetic, historical-cum-anthropological overview of the collective trajectory of Ivoirian converts to Islam from southern autochthonous lineages who can be referred to—albeit unsatisfyingly—as ‘native' Muslims. It focuses on what is effectively an invisible and silent minority within southern native groups and the majority Dioula Muslim society alike: a community that has barely received any attention from social scientists despite the transformative impact of its slow but steady Islamization process. The study aims first at shedding light on salient socio-religious and political aspects of this group's development, from colonial to postcolonial times. Given that this plural group is situated at the crossroads of various ethnic, national, and religious controversies, having enflamed Côte d'Ivoire in olden days as much as in recent years, the article eventually makes use of this group's distinct prism to question the contested Ivoirian interface between Islam, ethnic geography, and nationalism at large, and attempt some nuanced answers.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1296
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12341225 10.1163/15700666-12341225
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	117
bibo:pageStart
	95
bibo:volume
	42

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