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.)

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

Table of Contents

• 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