Embodied Knowledge and The Walking Qur'an: : Lessons for the Study of Islam and Africa
More than a study of Qur'an schooling in Senegambia, Rudolph Ware's The Walking Qur'an offers a new reading of West African history and a compelling argument about Islamic epistemologies. According to Ware, the embodied knowledge practices preserved in Senegambian Qur'an schools...
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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: 201-209 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Islam
/ Knowledge
/ Bodiliness
/ Cognition theory
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education BJ Islam KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |