UID:
almafu_9960116898502883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 489 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78744-607-7
Series Statement:
Religion in transforming Africa
Content:
Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the "europhone"/"non-europhone" knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 May 2021).
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Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Transliteration and Calendar -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going in the Study of Islamic Scholarship in Africa? -- PART I: HISTORY, MOVEMENT, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The African Roots of a Global Eighteenth-Century Islamic Scholarly Renewal -- Chapter 2 Muḥammad al-Kashnawī and the Everyday Life of the Occult -- Chapter 3 The African Community and African 'Ulamā' in Mecca: Al-Jāmī and Muḥammad Surūr al-Ṣabbān -- Chapter 4 The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa -- PART II: TEXTUALITY, ORALITY, AND ISLAMIC SCHOLARSHIP -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 Muslim Scholarship and the Question of Legal Authority in the Pre-Modern Sahara -- Chapter 6 Philosophical Sufism in the Sokoto Caliphate: The Case of Shaykh Dan Tafa -- Chapter 7 'If all the Legal Schools were to Disappear': ʿUmar Tāl's Approach to Jurisprudence -- Chapter 8 A New African Orality? Tijānī Sufism, Sacred Knowledge, and the ICTs in Post-Truth Times -- Chapter 9 The Sacred Text in Egypt's Popular Culture -- PART III: ISLAMIC EDUCATION -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development, and Tradition in Zanzibar -- Chapter 11 A New Daara: Integrating Qur'ānic, Agricultural, and Trade Education in a Community Setting -- Chapter 12 Islamic Education and the 'Diaspora': Religious Schooling for Senegalese Migrants' Children -- Chapter 13 What does Traditional Islamic Education Mean? Nouakchott's Contemporary Female Learning Circles -- PART IV: 'AJAMĪ, KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION, AND SPIRITUALITY -- Introduction -- Chapter 14 Bringing ʻIlm to the Common People: Sufi Vernacular Poetry and Islamic Education in Brava.
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Chapter 15 A Senegalese Sufi Saint and 'Ajamī Poet: Sëriñ Moor Kayre (1874-1951) -- Chapter 16 Praise and Prestige: The Significance of Elegiac Poetry Among Muslim Intellectuals -- Conclusion - The Study of Islamic Scholarship and the Social Sciences in Africa -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Previously published titles in the series.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84701-231-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781787446076
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787446076/type/BOOK
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