Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal - 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 Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal write by Khadim Mbacké. This book was released on 2005. Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an objective study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong intrenchment of a certain number of Sufi brotherhoods. In effect, the majority of Senegal's 7,600,000 Muslims consider adherence to a brotherhood, a tariqa, to be a religious obligation, in keeping with the well-known Sufi maxim ""He who does not have a shaykh will have Satan for a guide."" Mbacke traces the genesis and evolution of Sufism in order to explain the circumstances that permitted the emergence of Sufi brotherhoods. He describes the brotherhoods that are currently active in Senegal and depicts the means and manner of their diffusion, the lives of their founding figures, their basic teachings, their internal organization, the links they maintain with each other, and the role they play in the country's cultural, economic, social and political life. The book uses its study of the present condition of Senegal's Sufi brotherhoods to speculate on their future evolution.
Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal
Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal - 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 Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal write by Mamadou Diouf. This book was released on 2013. Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations. The anthology provides a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, illuminating the complex trajectory of the Senegalese state and reflecting on similar postcolonial societies. Offering rare perspectives on the country's "successes" since liberation, the volume identifies the role of religion, gender, culture, ethnicity, globalization, politics, and migration in the reconfiguration of the state and society, and it makes an important contribution to democratization theory, Islamic studies, and African studies.
Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal
Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal - 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 Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal write by . This book was released on . Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Medina Gounass
Medina Gounass - 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 Medina Gounass write by Gina Gertrud Smith. This book was released on 2009. Medina Gounass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gina Gertrud Smith is an associate researcher at the at Centre of African Studies and the Centre of European Islamic Thinking, University of Copenhagen. In this book she presents a Toucouleur and Peul (Fulani) society in Casamance, part of the Sufi brotherhood Tijaniyya. She describes the foundations of the society in the special charisma or baraka of the shaykh, his Islamic knowledge, and the Islamic educational system. She also debates how the system is being challenged by the secular Senegalese state and Islamism.
Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal
Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal - 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 Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal write by John Glover. This book was released on 2007. Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an "alternative modernity" as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples. The Murid order, founded in Senegal in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, grew into a major Sufi order during the colonial period and is now among the most recognizable of the Sufi orders in Africa. Murids have spread the voice of Islam and Africa in concert halls and on the airwaves through pop singers -- especially Youssou N'Dour -- and the image of Shaykh Amadu Bamba M'Backé, the founding saint of the order, often used to grace the covers ofworks concerning Islam, African culture, abolition, and European colonization. In this insightful and revealing study, John Glover explores the manner in which a Muslim society in West Africa actively created a conception ofmodernity that reflects its own historical awareness and identity. Drawing from Murid written and oral historical sources, Glover carefully considers how the Murid order at the collective and individual levels has navigated the intersection of two major historical forces -- Islam, specifically in the contexts of reform and mysticism, and European colonization -- and achieved in the process an understanding of modernity not as an unwilling witness but as anactive participant. Ultimately, Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal presents the reader with a new portrait of a society that has used its notion of modernity to adapt and incorporate further historical changes into its identity as an African Sufi order. John Glover is Associate Professor of History at the University of Redlands in southern California.
