West African 'ulamā' and Salafism in Mecca and Medina : : jawab al-Ifrīqī-the response of the African / / by Chanfi Ahmed.

• Superior document: Islam in Africa, Volume 17
• VerfasserIn: Ahmed, Chanfi,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Islam in Africa ; Volume 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Chanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Hijra on the Sudan Road (Ṭarīq al-Sūdān) -- 2 The ʿUlamāʾ Forerunners of the Hijra and Teachers in the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina -- 3 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Second Generation, Heirs of the Hijra and Teachers in the First Islamic Institutes in Saudi Arabia -- 4 The Dār al-Ḥadīth in Medina and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth -- 5 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Third Generation: Teachers and Administrators in the First Islamic Universities of Saudi Arabia -- 6 Africa in the Islamic University of Medina -- 7 Biography (Tarjama) in the Islamic Tradition according to the ʿUlamāʾ -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.