New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity

by Diouf, Mamadou; Leichtman, Mara A.

• ISBN13: 9780230606487
• ISBN10: 0230606482
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book brings together scholars for their fresh perspectives on religious conversion, transnational migration, economic globalization, and the politics of education, power, and femininity in African Islam in Senegal.

Author Biography

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Middle East and Asian languages and cultures and History Department an Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York.

Mara Leichtman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Muslim Studies at Michigan State University. 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Glossary	p. xiii
Acronyms of Muslim Movements and Political Parties	p. xvii
Introduction: New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity	p. 1
Histories, Ethnographies, and Pedagogies of Islam
The Longue Duree of Quran Schooling, Society, and State in Senegambia	p. 21
The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques	p. 51
Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism, and Colonization	p. 71
Conversion and Spiritual Translations
The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam in Senegal	p. 91
The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Orders	p. 111
Searching for God: Young Gambians' Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at	p. 139
Gender, Marriage, and Sexuality
Migration, Marriage, and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Precolonial Middle Casamance	p. 169
Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority, and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya	p. 189
Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity	p. 211
Modernity, Politics, and Dialectics
Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal	p. 237
Islam, Protest, and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements	p. 257
Index	p. 273
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