Wrapping Authority : : Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal /

Wrapping Authority : : Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal / / Joseph Hill.

Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Hill, Joseph ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Transliteration Note
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Emerging Urban Youth Movement
  • 2. The New Muqaddamas
  • 3. Wrapping
  • 4. Motherhood Metamorphosis Metaphors
  • 5. Cooking Up Spiritual Leadership
  • 6. “They Say a Woman’s Voice Is ʿAwra”
  • 7. The Ascetic and the Mother of the Knowers
  • Epilogue: Islam as a Numinous, Performative Tradition
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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