Making and remaking mosques in Senegal / by Cleo Cantone.
This book constitutes a seminal contribution to the fields of Islamic architectural history and gender studies. It is the first major empirical study of the history and current state of mosque building in Senegal and the first study of mosque space from a gender perspective. The author positions Sen...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa,
v. 13 Islam in Africa 13. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (479 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--SOAS, University of London, 2006. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century)
- The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920)
- Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s)
- The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present)
- Women, space and West African mosques.