Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

Lamin Sanneh's book Beyond Jihad deals with the peaceful transmission of Islam in West Africa by a pacifist clerical group. The author challenges the claim that the old African kingdom of Ghana was conquered by the militant Berber Almoravids in the eleventh century. Islam was not introduced int...

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Main Author: Azumah, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing [2017]
In: International bulletin of mission research
Year: 2017, Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 363-369
Further subjects:B Clerics
B Islam
B Pacifism
B Colonialism
B Africa
B Jihad
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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