UID:
almafu_9959241362702883
Format:
1 online resource (233 p.)
ISBN:
1-62637-118-0
Content:
Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable Muslim populations were experiencing significant transformations in the relationship between religion and state. Political Islam in West Africa explores those ongoing transformations in key countries of the Sahel region. Each country chapter provides both historical context and an examination of the changing nature of domestic politics and foreign policy in the post-September 11 world. Introductory and concluding chapters provide additional context and highlight overarching themes. A notable feature of the book is a comprehensive bibliography of Islamism in West Africa.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Map of West Africa""; ""1-West African Islam: Emerging Political Dynamics""; ""Definitional and Positional Precisions""; ""Origins and Spread of Islam in West Africa""; ""Heuristic Underpinnings""; ""A Nyangian Perspective and Contemporary Response""; ""Scope of the Chapters""; ""Note""; ""2-Niger: Islamist Identity and the Politics of Globalization""; ""Islam in Niger""; ""Political Islam and Islamism""; ""Islam, Politics, and the State""; ""Local Manifestations of “Political� Islam""
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""Understanding Islam in the Era of Democracy and Rising Islamism""""Political Islam and the Rise of Religious Conflict and Violence in the Sahel""; ""What Do the Reformists Want?""; ""The Rise of the New Hausa Capitalists""; ""The Problem of Islamic Globalization""; ""Notes""; ""3-Nigeria: The Quest for a Viable Religious Option""; ""The Historical Context: Networks of the Qadiriyya and the Tijaniyya""; ""The Reformers: Ibrahim Niass and Nasiru Kabara""; ""The Modernizers: Abubakar Gumi and the Jama�at Nasr al-Islam""
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""The Activists: The Muslim Students Society, Dawa, and the Islamic Movement""""The Clash of Religions""; ""The “Muslim Internationale�""; ""By Way of Conclusion: Is Sharia the Solution?""; ""Notes""; ""4-Mali: Accommodation or Coexistence?""; ""The Spread of Islam in Mali and Its Latter-day Effects""; ""Are Cultural Pluralism and Tolerance Aspects of Mali�s (Historical) Political Culture?""; ""France and “Accommodation� in the Western Sahel""; ""Transitions: French-Muslim Relations Toward and at Independence""; ""Islam and the New Mali, 1960�1992""
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""Islam in the Return of Democracy""""The New Malian Picture: Neither Accommodation nor Coexistence?""; ""Challenges and Intrusions""; ""Notes""; ""5-Mauritania: Clash of Authoritarianism and Ethnicity""; ""Between Authoritarianism . . .""; "". . . And Ethnicity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""6-The Gambia: Islam and Politics""; ""Conceptual Framework""; ""Ethnoreligious Backdrop""; ""Religion and Partisan Politics""; ""The End of Tolerance in a Culture of Religious Diversity""; ""Gambian Politics and Religion: The Jawara Era""
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""A Call for the Reformation of Traditional Islamic Practice and the Emergence of Anti-American Rhetoric""""Further Manipulation of Islam to Control the Political Machinery of the Provinces""; ""Other Uses of Islamic Symbols to Gain and Control Political Power""; ""Backlash of the President�s Strategy: A Political Dilemma""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""7-Senegal: Shades of Islamism on a Sufi Landscape""; ""The Senegalese Sufi System and Its Critics""; ""The System in Question""; ""The New Terrain of Alternance: Islamic Issues in a Changing Landscape""
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""Rethinking Sufism and Islamism in the New World of Muslim Identities""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58826-527-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781626371187
