Making and remaking mosques in Senegal / by Cleo Cantone.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Islam in Africa, v. 13
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Physical Description:xliv, 408 p. [22 p.] of plates :; ill., maps.
Notes:Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--SOAS, University of London, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century)
  • The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920)
  • Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s)
  • The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present)
  • Women, space and West African mosques.