Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960 - Softcover

Peterson, Brian J.

 
9780300152708: Islamization from Below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300152701 ISBN 13: 9780300152708
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian J. Peterson considers for the first time how and why rural peoples in West Africa "became Muslim" under French colonialism.

Peterson rejects conventional interpretations that emphasize the roles of states, jihads, and elites in "converting" people, arguing instead that the expansion of Islam owed its success to the mobility of thousands of rural people who gradually, and usually peacefully, adopted the new religion on their own. Based on extensive fieldwork in villages across southern Mali (formerly French Sudan) and on archival research in West Africa and France, the book draws a detailed new portrait of grassroots, multi-generational processes of Islamization in French Sudan while also deepening our understanding of the impact and unintended consequences of colonialism.

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Brian J. Peterson is assistant professor of history, Union College. He lives in New York City.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300152701
ISBN 13 
9780300152708
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
334
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