Unveiling modernity in 20th century West African Islamic reforms / by Ousman Murzik Kobo.

• Author: Kobo, Ousman Murzik.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Islam in Africa ; v. 14; Islam in Africa 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (423 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; 1 Islam Prior to the Colonial Period /; 2 Managing the “Islamic Menace”: Islam under British and French Rule /; 3 From the Students of the Sheikh to the Followers of the Prophet: Genesis of Wahhabism in Burkina Faso /; 4 “Seeing” God: Tarbiya and the Beginning of Wahhabism in Ghana /; 5 Mouvement Sunnite of Burkina Faso, 1973–1988 /; 6 Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Reprehensible: Wahhabism in Ghana, 1970–1998 /; 7 The Triple Heritage of West African Wahhabism: Islamic Reform and Modernity from Within and from Without /; 8 From Rejection to Coexistence /; 9 “Conscripts” of Modernity and Wahhabi Reform /; References /; Appendix /; Index of people /; Index of Subjects /; Index of Places /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1283602075; 9786613914521; 900423313X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Ousman Murzik Kobo.

In this book Ousman Kobo analyzes the origins of Wahhabi-inclined reform movements in two West African countries. Commonly associated with recent Middle Eastern influences, reform movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso actually began during the twilight of European colonial rule in the 1950's and developed from local doctrinal contests over Islamic orthodoxy. These early movements in turn gradually evolved in ways sympathetic to Wahhabi ideas. Kobo also illustrates the modernism of this style of Islamic reform. The decisive factor for most of the movements was the alliance of secularly educated Muslim elites with Islamic scholars to promote a self-consciously modern religiosity rooted in the Prophet Muhammad’s traditions. This book therefore provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of “Wahhabism.”