| Description |
1 online resource (423 pages) |
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Islam in Africa |
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Islam in Africa.
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| Contents |
Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; The Scope of the Study; Methodology: Archives with Voices; Unveiling the Discourse of Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Reforms; Radicalism and Coexistence in West Africa's Tradition of Islamic Reform and Renewal; Ahmad b. Abd al-Halim Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328); Muhammad b. Abd al-Karim al-Maghili al-Tilimsini; El Hajj Salim Suwari; Uthman dan Fodio; Hajj Umar Tall al-Futi; Part One History; Introduction to Part One; Chapter One Islam Prior to the Colonial Period |
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Islam in Burkina Faso prior to the European ConquestsIslam in Ghana prior to European Colonialism: Compromise and Coexistence with the Asante; Chapter Two Managing the "Islamic Menace": Islam under British and French Rule; Mahdism and the Discourse of "Islamic Fanaticism" in Colonial West Africa; Taming Islamic Knowledge: Colonialism and the Development of the Madrasa; French Policy toward Islam in Burkina Faso; British Colonial Attitude toward Muslims and Islamic Schooling in Ghana; Sheikh Boubacar Sawadogo and French Policies toward Muslimsin Burkina Faso |
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The Muslim Configurations at the End of Colonial RulePart Two Early Implantation; Introduction to Part Two; Chapter Three From the Students of the Sheikh to the Followers of the Prophet: Genesis of Wahhabism in Burkina Faso; Early Implantation of Wahhabism:The Malian and Senegalese Influence; Communauté Musulmane de Haute Volta (Burkina Faso); El Hajj Muhammad Malick Sana; Imam Sayouba Ouédraogo; Aboubacar Kanozoe of Paghtenga; Message and Influence; The Growth: 1966-1972; Recruitment Strategies; The Mosque and the Spread of Wahhabi/Sunna Doctrine; Internal Conflicts |
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Chapter Four "Seeing" God: Tarbiya and the Beginning of Wahhabism in GhanaHajj Yussif Salih Afa Ajura; Veiling the Bride: Hajj Yussif Afa Ajura's Cultural Reform; Anti-Tarbiya and the Founding of Ambariyya; Smashing the Idols and Burning the Talismans: Sheikh Adam Appiedu's Reform in Asante; Part Three Maturation: 1970s-1990s; Introduction to Part Three; Chapter Five Mouvement Sunnite of Burkina Faso, 1973-1988; The Reconstituted Communauté Musulmane and the Conflicts of 1973; The Formation of the Mouvement Sunnite de Haute Volta (Burkina Faso); Burkina Faso and the Arab/Muslim World |
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The Sunna Movement, Phase IIChapter Six Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Reprehensible: Wahhabism in Ghana, 1970-1998; Hajj Umar's Intellectual Development; Islamic Research and Reformation Center; Secularly-Educated Muslim Professionals and the Diffusion of Wahhabism in Accra; Ghana Islamic Research and Reformation Center I (1970-1986); Wahhabi-Inclined Reform in Kumasi; Chapter Seven The Triple Heritage of West African Wahhabism: Islamic Reform and Modernity from Within and from Without; The Indigenous Context; The Middle Eastern Connection |
| Summary |
In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the Indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-356) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
880-01 Wahhābīyah -- Ghana -- History
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880-01/(Q Wahha⁺ѕbi⁺ѕya -- Burkina Faso -- History |
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Wahhābīyah -- Burkina Faso -- History
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Islamic modernism -- Ghana
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Islamic modernism -- Burkina Faso
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Islam -- Ghana
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Islam -- Burkina Faso
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Islam.
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Islamic modernism.
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Wahhābīyah.
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Burkina Faso.
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Ghana.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012021564 |
| ISBN |
9789004233133 |
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900423313X |
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9789004215252 |
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9004215255 |
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