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Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa: Practices, Trajectories and Influences
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Abstract The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experien... view more
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America. parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.... view less
Keywords
West Africa; Islam; Muslim; leadership; authority; law; gender; media; aesthetics; radicalization; cooperation; power
Classification
Sociology of Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
De Gruyter
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
236 p.
Series
ZMO-Studien, 42
ISBN
978-3-11-073320-4
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0