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Medina Gounass - Challenges to Village Sufism in Senegal

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

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Authors Gina Gertrud Smith
Assisted by Jørgen Podemann Sørensen (Editor)
Publisher Books On Demand
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 08.01.2009
 
EAN 9788776913533
ISBN 978-87-7691-353-3
No. of pages 96
Dimensions 135 mm x 215 mm x 8 mm
Weight 142 g
Illustrations 23 Farbabb.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Miscellaneous

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