West African Islamic States and Antislavery in The Walking Qur'an
Challenging conventional wisdom about Islam and Muslim societies in West African history, Rudolph Butch Ware's The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge and History in West Africa is not a conventional study of Islam, nor is it a study of a particular region or time perio...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2015]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-183 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Islam
/ Empire
/ Abolitionists
/ History 1776-1900
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion BJ Islam KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NCC Social ethics TJ Modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Challenging conventional wisdom about Islam and Muslim societies in West African history, Rudolph Butch Ware's The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge and History in West Africa is not a conventional study of Islam, nor is it a study of a particular region or time period in African history. Rather, I would call it an intellectual history of selected Muslim leaders and societies in West Africa, but with substantial reference to the foundations of Islam and figures such as Bilal. The focus of the book is Qur'anic education across the centuries, from Mecca to West Africa, although education beyond the Qur'an is often subsumed in that. My fundamental question about the text has to do with the relationship of the Islamic state, symbolized especially by Futa Toro, to antislavery. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.3.2.0177 |