Unveiling modernity in twentieth-century West African Islamic reforms /

In this book Ousman Kobo analyzes the origins of Wahhabi-inclined reform movements in two West African countries. Commonly associated with recent Middle Eastern influences, reform movements in Ghana and Burkina Faso actually began during the twilight of European colonial rule in the 1950s and develo...

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Main Author: Kobo, Ousman Murzik.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Islam in Africa 14.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248731.

Subjects:

Wahhābīyah > Ghana > History.

Wahhābīya > Burkina Faso > History.

Islamic modernism > Ghana.

Islamic modernism > Burkina Faso.