Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa write by Mara A. Leichtman. This book was released on 2015-08-27. Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi'i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi'i hostility, demonstrating that religious coexistence is possible in a context such as Senegal.
Shi'a Minorities in the Contemporary World
Shi'a Minorities in the Contemporary World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shi'a Minorities in the Contemporary World write by Oliver Scharbrodt. This book was released on 2020-06-18. Shi'a Minorities in the Contemporary World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other parts of the world. This book offers a set of new comparative perspectives on the experiences of Shi'a Muslim minorities outside the so-called Muslim heartland (Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia). It looks at Shiʻa minority communities in Europe, North and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and discusses the particular challenges these communities face as "a minority within a minority"--
Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism
Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism write by Babacar M'Baye. This book was released on 2017-03-31. Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone West Africans (Kojo Touvalou-Houénou, Lamine Senghor, and Léopold Sédar Senghor) developed during the two world wars by fighting for freedom, equality, and justice for Senegalese and other West African colonial soldiers (known as tirailleurs) who made enormous sacrifices to liberate France from German oppression. Focusing on the solidarity between this special group of African American, Caribbean, and Francophone West African intellectuals against French colonialism, this book uncovers pivotal moments of black Anglophone and Francophone cosmopolitanism and traces them to published and archived writings produced between 1914 and the middle of the twentieth century.
Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa
Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa write by Holger Weiss. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Muslim Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The individual chapters discuss how traditional Muslim welfare and charity institutions, zakat (obligatory or mandatory almsgiving), sadaqa (voluntary almsgiving and donations) and waqf (pious endowments), are used to improve social welfare, focusing on instrumentalization and institutionalization in the collection and distribution of zakat. The book includes case studies from West Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal), the Horn of Africa (Somalia) and East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), highlighting the role and interplay of local, national and international Sunni, Shia and Ahmadiyya Muslim faith-based organizations and NGOs. Chapters "Muslim NGOs, Zakat and the Provision of Social Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Introduction" and "Discourses on Zakat and Its Implementation in Contemporary Ghana" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Struggling with History
Struggling with History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Struggling with History write by Edward Simpson. This book was released on 2008. Struggling with History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Struggling with History compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. Essays contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. Few books combine a comparable level of interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise.
