New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
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Acronyms of Muslim Movements and Political Parties......Page 18
Introduction: New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity......Page 20
Part 1 Histories, Ethnographies, and Pedagogies of Islam......Page 38
1 The Longue Durée of Quran Schooling, Society, and State in Senegambia......Page 40
2 The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques......Page 70
3 Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism, and Colonization......Page 90
Part 2 Conversion and Spiritual Translations......Page 108
4 The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam in Senegal......Page 110
5 The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi’a Alternatives to Sufi Orders......Page 130
6 Searching for God: Young Gambians’ Conversion to the Tabligh Jama‘at......Page 158
Part 3 Gender, Marriage, and Sexuality......Page 186
7 Migration, Marriage, and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Precolonial Middle Casamance......Page 188
8 Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority, and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya......Page 208
9 Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity......Page 230
Part 4 Modernity, Politics, and Dialectics......Page 254
10 Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal......Page 256
11 Islam, Protest, and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements......Page 276
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