Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa / / ed. by Humphrey J. Fisher, Nehemia Levtzion.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Colvin, Lucie G.,; Fisher, Humphrey J.,; Green, Kathryn L.,; Kaplan, Steven,; Levtzion, Nehemia,; McDougall, E. Ann,; Sanneh, Lamin,; Yacoob, May,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisher, Humphrey J.,; Levtzion, Nehemia,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps --; Tables --; Preface --; 1 Rural and Urban Islam in West Africa: An Introductory Essay --; 2 Merchants vs. Scholars and Clerics in West Africa: Differential and Complementary Roles --; 3 The Economics of Islam in the Southern Sahara: The Rise of the Kunta Clan --; 4 The Shaykh's Men: Religion and Power in Senegambian Islam --; 5 Tcherno Aliou, the Wall of Goumba: Islam, Colonialism and the Rural Factor in Futa Jallon, 1867-1912 --; 6 Dyula and Sonongui Roles in the Islamization of the Region of Kong --; 7 Ahmadiyya and Urbanization: Easing the Integration of Rural Women in Abidjan --; 8 Court and Periphery in Ethiopian Christianity --; 9 Liminality, Hijra and the City --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685855826; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685855826
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Humphrey J. Fisher, Nehemia Levtzion.

Provides an expanded view of West African Islam, redressing the balance in the scholarly literature between urban and rural Islam.