o:id
	5132
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/5132
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	Journal article
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	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	From "Sya" to Islam: Social Change and Identity among Muslim Youth in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25110
dcterms:date
	2000
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113531145 Q113531145
	iwac-reference-0000115
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Based on field research conducted in 1992, 1993-1995, and 1998, the author examines how young, urban, educated Muslims of Malian origin living in Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, privilege Islam as the cornerstone of their individual and group identities. As Muslims, this group is moving away from their ancestral ties to Mali, expressed as 'sya', the word in the Dioula-Banmanan language which comes closest to the concept of ethnicity. The shift in identity from 'sya' to Islam is embodied in the creation and growth of neighbourhood-based Islamic youth associations since the early 1990s. Islam provides youths with a distinct identity with which to face gerontocratic relations of power, the structural changes that have affected educational and Islamic institutions in Côte d'Ivoire over the past thirty years, and recent Ivorian politics of cultural difference.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1294
bibo:pageEnd
	109
bibo:pageStart
	85
bibo:volume
	46

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