Unveiling modernity in twentieth-century West African Islamic reforms /

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.
Islam > Ghana.
Islam > Burkina Faso.

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Call Number: BP195.W2 K63 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • 1 Islam Prior to the Colonial Period /
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  • 2 Managing the "Islamic Menace": Islam under British and French Rule /
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  • 3 From the Students of the Sheikh to the Followers of the Prophet: Genesis of Wahhabism in Burkina Faso /
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  • 4 "Seeing" God: Tarbiya and the Beginning of Wahhabism in Ghana /
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  • 5 Mouvement Sunnite of Burkina Faso, 1973-1988 /
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  • 6 Promoting the Good and Forbidding the Reprehensible: Wahhabism in Ghana, 1970-1998 /
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  • 7 The Triple Heritage of West African Wahhabism: Islamic Reform and Modernity from Within and from Without /
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  • 8 From Rejection to Coexistence /
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  • 9 "Conscripts" of Modernity and Wahhabi Reform /
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  • References /
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  • Appendix /
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  • Index of people /
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  • Index of Subjects /
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  • Index of Places /
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