Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Western African studies |
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Western African studies.
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Contents |
Space, time, and structure -- Sources, discourses, and mediators of knowledge -- Conquest and colonial rules -- France as a "Muslim power" -- Civil society: Saint-Louis in the French imperial sphere -- The sons of Ndar: the muslim merchants of Saint-Louis -- The obstacles to accommodation for the Umarians -- Saad Buh and the Fadiliyya way -- Sidyiyya Baba: co-architect of colonial Mauritania -- Malik Sy: teacher in the new colonial order -- Amadu Bamba: a complex path to accommodation |
Summary |
"Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation, David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the colonial authorities of French West Africa in order to preserve autonomy within the religious, social, and economic realms while abandoning the political sphere to their non-Muslim rulers." "By charting the similarities and differences of the trajectories followed by leading groups within the region as they responded to the colonial presence, Robinson provides an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power, the concepts of civil society and hegemony, and the transferability of symbolic, economic, and social capital."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Muslims -- Africa, French-speaking West -- History
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Muslims -- Africa, French-speaking West
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HISTORY.
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French colonies
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Muslims
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Kolonie
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Islam
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Islamieten.
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Islamitische economie.
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Koloniaal bestuur.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- To 1884.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001625
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Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- 1884-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001626
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France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
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Africa
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French-speaking Western Africa
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Mauretanien
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Frankreich
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Senegal
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0821440551 |
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9780821440551 |
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