Download or read book Islam et soci t s en Afrique subsaharienne l preuve de l histoire written by Odile Goerg and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durant sa longue carrière, Jean-Louis Triaud a creusé plusieurs sillons centrés sur la connaissance des sociétés musulmanes en Afrique de l'Ouest et au-delà. Il a encadré de nombreux étudiants dans leurs travaux de maîtrise et de thèse. Cet ouvrage reflète les domaines couverts et développés dans ce cadre universitaire : modalités d'expansion de l'islam, manifestations culturelles et religieuses, personnalités marquantes... Ils forment le coeur de ce livre publié en sa compagnie. La continuité des thèmes qui ont alimenté cette réflexion a donné la possibilité à plusieurs de ses collègues, élèves et amis de réunir leurs contributions pour souligner le sens que la progression dans ces thématiques a eu pour leur parcours intellectuel respectif. Collaborent particulièrement à cet ouvrage plusieurs enseignants-chercheurs d'universités africaines qui ont maintenu fidèlement le lien avec leur directeur de recherche. À travers les études des "lieux", des "objets" (tels le livre, la langue, la lettre) et des "figures" de l'islam, les auteurs offrent de nouvelles interprétations des espaces musulmans dans le Sahara et dans le Sahel, traversés par les flux migratoires, par de nouvelles idées, parfois par des pulsions jihadistes. Des phénomènes tels que la "réislamisation" et la "laïcité", mais aussi les combats de différents acteurs musulmans pour leur statut et leurs idéaux se trouvent au centre de l'ouvrage. Ce livre apporte des regards nouveaux sur l'histoire des "confréries" et de leurs "réseaux", sur les rapports entre les pouvoirs et les institutions islamiques. Le trait commun de toutes les contributions, qui portent principalement sur l'Afrique occidentale mais aussi orientale et septentrionale, est leur regard d'historien marqué par une réflexion sur le sens et la portée de ce métier.
Download or read book West African Sufi written by Louis Brenner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trans Saharan Book Trade written by Graziano Krätli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Download or read book Alexander Magnus Arabicus written by Faustina Doufikar-Aerts and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and exploits of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great were recorded and passed down in the legendary biography, known as the Alexander Romance of Pseudo-Callisthenes. During the Middle Ages the Romance became extremely popular, after its Greek original had been translated and elaborated in numerous versions and vernaculars. Alexander's fame spread all over Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central and South East Asia. In this study the focus is on the Arabic tradition. For the first time this field of research has now been explored in all its details, resulting in a complete survey and classification of this rich tradition. The book is written as a quest. It presents the process of tracing manuscripts and texts, some of which were considered lost, others still unknown. One of the major results is the discovery of manuscripts of the long sought for Arabic translation of Pseudo-Callisthenes' Alexander Romance. By this find the author proved the survival of this text, reconstructed its stemma and investigated its character and provenance. Another merit of this study is the portrayal of Alexander, as he occurs in all different genres of Arabic and Islamic literature. A classification of the texts, a detailed analysis and many translated episodes offer the reader a coherent view on this literature, that shows Alexander on time as a pre-Islamic world conqueror, another as a seeker of Wisdom and even as a religious messenger. Finally, there is a summary of an Arabic folk epic, Sirat al-Iskandar, which demonstrates the complete incorporation of Alexander as the protagonist of a specimen of Arab popular lore. This survey of the Arabic Alexander tradition complies with a long felt need among scholars of Medieval Studies, Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, as well as among classicists, historians, orientalists and anyone interested in the legacy of Alexander.
Download or read book Saharan Frontiers written by James McDougall and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.
Download or read book Speaking for Islam written by Gudrun Krämer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on Middle Eastern Muslim majority societies in the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. This work contains papers which highlight the scope and variety of religious authorities in Muslim societies.
Download or read book Religion and the Global City written by David Garbin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong – which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.
Download or read book Islam soci t s et politique en Afrique subsaharienne written by Hassane Souley and published by Les Indes savantes. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire written by Martin Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire offers the most comprehensive treatment of the causes, course, and consequences of the collapse of empires in the twentieth century. The volume's contributors convey the global reach of decolonization, analysing the ways in which European, Asian, and African empires disintegrated over the past century.
Download or read book Abundant Life written by Ezra Chitando and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often perceived as conservative and rigid, Christian churches have oftentimes been barriers to people's claiming their sexuality. Yet, in their response to the crisis posed by AIDS and HIV, churches have also often challenged harmful cultural practices and surmounted that stereotype. Focusing on sexual and reproductive health rights, especially in African settings, this book seeks to identify and cultivate the positive - indeed liberating - role that churches must play. Bringing the power of religion to bear on the social and religious attitudes that lead to silence, stigma, repression, and even gender violence, the book critically appraises and reappropriates received biblical, pastoral, and theological sources to offer a new vision to those persons most often denied their rights, including women, the young, sexual minorities, and the disabled. Published by the World Council of Churches, the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy (EHAIA) series has proven to be a theological and pastoral wellspring for churches in Africa and beyond. This volume will enlighten and inform church leaders and pastoral caregivers everywhere on how the churches can enable all people to enjoy abundant life. (Series: Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiatives and Advocacy / EHAIA) Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity, African Studies]
Download or read book Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara written by Kane Ousmane and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mille ans de présence, cent vingt millions d'adeptes, soit un huitième de la population musulmane mondiale, tel est, en cette fin de Xe siècle, le bilan de l'islamisation de l'Afrique subsaharienne. Mais pour longue et significative que soit la présence au sud du Sahara de l'islam, religion d'une personne sur trois, il demeure encore assez méconnu. Fondé en 1987, la revue Islam et sociétés au sud du Sahara, animée par des chercheurs d'Europe, d'Afrique et Amérique et autres a contribué à mieux faire connaître cet islam. Cet ouvrage reprend une série d'articles publiés dans ses colonnes sur l'islam contemporain et actualisés pour les besoins de cette publication. Visant à mieux faire connaître un islam contemporain, au croisement de la longue durée historienne et de l'interrogation politologique, ce livre se veut introduction et illustration du champ islamo-africaniste. La perspective d'ensemble y est combinée avec l'étude de cas, l'outil de vulgarisation avec la recherche de pointe.
Download or read book Generations in Africa written by Erdmute Alber and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations. The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.
Download or read book Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth Century West African Islamic Reforms written by Ousman Murzik Kobo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.
Download or read book Muslim Youth and the 9 11 Generation written by Adeline Masquelier and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume—who draw from a variety of disciplines—show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explore the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
Download or read book Unconfessed written by Yvette Christiansë and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa. Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and—driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime—from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging . . . condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island. Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets and walls. She remembers the day her childhood ended, when slave catchers came — whipping the air and the ground and we were like deer whipped into the smaller and smaller circle of our fear. Sila remembers her masters, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"), who in her will granted Sila her freedom, but Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, destroys the will and with it Sila's life. Sila remembers her children, with joy and with pain, and imagines herself a great bird that could sweep them up in her wings and set them safely on a branch above all harm. Unconfessed is an epic novel that connects the reader to the unimaginable through the force of poetry and a far-reaching imagination.
Download or read book Islam Youth and Modernity in the Gambia written by Marloes Janson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century, and its impact in the Gambia (West Africa) in the past decade. The Jama'at offers Gambian youth, and women in particular, new opportunities to express their religious identity in a way that is in line with a modern lifestyle. The book investigates how Gambian youth have incorporated the South Asian Tablighi ideology into their daily lives and adapted it to their local context.
Download or read book Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa written by B. Soares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political liberalization and economic reform, the weakening of the state, and increased global interconnections have all had profound effects on Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa. The contributors to this volume investigate and illuminate the changes that have occurred in Africa, through detailed case studies.
