Living knowledge in West African Islam : the sufi community of Ibrahim Niasse /
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| Author / Creator: | Wright, Zachary Valentine. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] |
| Description: | xviii, 333 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa ; volume 18 Islam in Africa ; v. 18. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10336788 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Note on Orthography
- Figures
- Figure 1. Senegambia in the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Figure 2. Medina-Baye and the City of Kaolack
- Figure 3. Clerical Lineages in West Africa: The Niasse and the Cissé
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Theoretical Considerations
- Macrohistory
- Habitus
- Embodiment and Subjectivity
- Literature Review
- Narrative Structure of the Book
- 1. Clerical Communities in West African History
- Enduring Learning Practices
- Islamic Jurisprudence of the Malikl School
- Qur'an Learning
- Esoteric Sciences
- Sufism
- Muslim Scholars in West African Social History
- The Jihad of Ma Ba Diakhou
- The Social Appeal of the New Marabout Communities
- 2. A New Senegambian Clerical Community
- The Niassène: Social and Intellectual Background
- Ibrahim Niasse and the "Community of the Flood"
- 3. Honored Disciples: The Cissé of the Saloum
- 'Abdallah Niasse and the Cissé of Diossong
- 'Ali Cissé and Paradigmatic Discipleship
- 4. Knowing God
- On Spiritual Training
- Being Filled with God
- The Prophet Muhammad, Mirror of God
- Ahmad al-Tijani and Divine Cognizance
- 5. Understanding Sufi Discipleship
- Assuring the Aspirants
- Conduct of the Disciple
- Qualities of the Spiritual Guide
- Disciple Perspectives
- 6. The Adaptation of Traditional Learning Practices
- Maintaining the Sanad Tradition
- Adopting the Madrasa
- Maintaining the Learning Circles
- Strategies of Structural Adaptation
- 7. Cognizance and the Revival of the Islamic Sciences
- Qur'an Learning and Knowing God
- Sufism and Maliki Jurisprudence in Medina-Baye
- The Esoteric Sciences and Shaykh-Disciple Relations
- Divine Cognizance and the Sufi Orders in West Africa
- 8. Islam and African Decolonization: Community Solidarities and Distinctions
- Islam and African Liberation
- Islam and the Postcolonial Nation-State
- Pan-Africanism
- A Vision of Global Islamic Solidarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index