[URBANTH-L]New Book on Islam in Senegal with transnational focus

[Leichtman, Mara]

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New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal

Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity


 


Edited by Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman 


 


Palgrave MacMillan, January 2009


http://us.macmillan.com/newperspectivesonislaminsenegal

 

Drawing together contributions from history, anthropology, sociology, political science and religious studies, this collection of original essays interrogates the new structures and conditions of Islam in Senegal, locally and globally.  This volume represents a break from the established literature on "Senegalese Islam," and brings fresh perspectives, alternative methodologies and provocative theories on transnational Islam, religious conversion, revisionist histories, and patterns of conspicuous consumption in relation to gender and Islam. Chapters highlight discourses and practices in the context of broadly defined sites:  conversion, education, politics and economics, sexuality, popular culture and architecture, and their impact on the multiple and changing articulations of Muslim identities.   

 

Table of Contents

 

Introduction, Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman

 

SECTION 1: HISTORIES, ETHNOGRAPHIES AND PEDAGOGIES OF ISLAM

Chapter 1: The Longue Durée of Quranic Schooling, Society and State in Senegambia, Rudolph T. Ware 

Chapter 2: The Shifting Space of Senegalese Mosques, Cleo Cantone

Chapter 3: Murid Modernity: Historical Perceptions of Islamic Reform, Sufism and Colonization, John Glover

 

SECTION 2: CONVERSION AND SPIRITUAL TRANSLATIONS

Chapter 4: The Greater Jihad and Conversion: Sereer Interpretations of Sufi Islam, James Searing 

Chapter 5: The Authentication of a Discursive Islam: Shi'a Alternatives to Sufi Orders, Mara A. Leichtman 

Chapter 6: Searching for God: Young Gambian Conversion to the Tabligh Jama'at, Marloes Janson 

 

SECTION 3: GENDER, MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY

Chapter 7: Migration, Marriage and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance, Aly Dramé 

Chapter 8: Beyond Brotherhood: Gender, Religious Authority and the Global Circuits of Senegalese Muridiyya, Beth A. Buggenhagen 

Chapter 9: Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity, Erin Augis 

 

SECTION 4: MODERNITY, POLITICS AND DIALECTICS

Chapter 10: Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal, Roman Loimeier

Chapter 11: Islam, Protest and Citizen Mobilization: New Sufi Movements, Fabienne Samson

 

 

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Middle East and Asian languages and cultures and History Department an Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York.

 

Mara A. Leichtman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Muslim Studies at Michigan State University.   

 

Mara Leichtman
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Michigan State University
310 Baker Hall
East Lansing, MI  48824
Tel:  (517) 432-7048
Fax:  (517) 432-2363
mara.leichtman at ssc.msu.edu