The ' Community of Helpers of the sunna': Islamic reform among the Songhay of Gao (Mali)
The author explores a rural group (Songhay of the Gao region) with a scriptural approach to Islam to bring more attention to Islamic reform as a factor of social change in rural Africa. He attempts to determine why radical reform has developed in a society which, until recently, has been portrayed a...
| Published in: | Africa |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1990
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Africa
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam
B Mali B Songhai B Rural population B Reform movement B People B Tree trunk Ethnology B Social change B Muslim |
| Summary: | The author explores a rural group (Songhay of the Gao region) with a scriptural approach to Islam to bring more attention to Islamic reform as a factor of social change in rural Africa. He attempts to determine why radical reform has developed in a society which, until recently, has been portrayed as having a vital system of animist worship and only a peripheral approach to Islam. (DÜI-Sen) |
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| ISSN: | 0001-9720 |
| Contains: | In: Africa
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