L'Islam en Afrique de l'ouest: Les meridiens et les paralleles
The expansion of Islam in Africa, south of Sahara can be assimilated to the dissemination of Sufi brotherhoods (tariqa) using a system of opposition between latitudes and longitudes, combining military alliances and trade networks. In the Saharan region, the most important brotherhoods have either i...
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2000
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Autrepart
Year: 2000, Issue: 16, Pages: 117-137 |
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B Mosque B Africa B Telecommunication B Islamic countries B Koran B Foreign trade B Islamization B Role B Interculturality B School B Islam B Arab countries B Pilgrimage B Meaning |
| Summary: | The expansion of Islam in Africa, south of Sahara can be assimilated to the dissemination of Sufi brotherhoods (tariqa) using a system of opposition between latitudes and longitudes, combining military alliances and trade networks. In the Saharan region, the most important brotherhoods have either identified themselves with the trading Maraboutic tribes following the longitudinal lines, as in the cases of Qadiriyya and Sanusiyya, or following the latitudinal lines, because of the pilgrimage, with Tijaniyya. Among the various branches of this Tijaniyya, the family of Niass from Kaolack in Senegal illustrates the connection between these two axes since its followers are currently being recruited in Mauritania and Senegal, as well as in Nigeria and the Sudan. Around the second world war, pilgrims returned from the Arabian peninsula with "reformist" ideas: they criticised the Sufi brotherhoods and modernised the teaching of the Koran and of the Arabic. More recently, a second type of reformism, closer to Islam, received support from the Arab countries - Saudi Arabia, Iran, Libya - thanks to the petrol boom of the 1970s. In contrast to the personalisation of the "traditional" master disciple relationship, there is a materialisation of the means of transmitting Islam: construction of mosques, audio and video cassettes of preachers using the national language and modern media. (Autrepart/DÜI) |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3986 |
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