Experience of muslims in francophone West Africa
This chapter diachronically analyzes the experiences of Muslims in West Africa, from the first contacts of West Africans with the new religion of Islam in the eighth century CE and the establishment of the first Muslim trading communities south of the Sahara desert, to the adoption of Islam by ruler...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/711600 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/711600 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73653-2_21-1 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Muslims Francophone west Africa Humanidades |
| Sumario: | This chapter diachronically analyzes the experiences of Muslims in West Africa, from the first contacts of West Africans with the new religion of Islam in the eighth century CE and the establishment of the first Muslim trading communities south of the Sahara desert, to the adoption of Islam by rulers and elites of different West African states from the tenth to the fifteenth century. It focuses on the first traditions of Islamic scholarship, and particularly on the ones which took place in the Middle Niger in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and also in the birth of the first Sufi brotherhoods after this period. This chapter studies the different reform movements of the nineteenth century and their impact in the accomplishment of the process of islamization of West Africa, as well as their contribution to the “Africanization” of Islam, through their particular interpretation of popular devotion and piety, which continued to be the characteristic spirit of West African Islam despite the influence of global puritanism of Middle Eastern and Arabian Wahhabi movements |
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