Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town: No. 32 - Rilegato

Soares, Benjamin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0748622853 ISBN 13: 9780748622856

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and written sources, Soares provides a richly detailed discussion of Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in Mali and offers an original analytical perspective for understanding changes in the practice of Islam more generally.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0748622853
• ISBN 13: 9780748622856
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320