Narratives as Muslim Practice in Senegal
©2013
Monographs
XIII,
209 Pages
Series:
Society and Politics in Africa, Volume 22
Summary
Sufi oral discourse in Senegal is overwhelmingly dominated by stories about past and current shaykhs. An important corpus of oral narratives about Sufi clerics is not only (re)told by Sufi speakers throughout Senegal but also in the Senegalese diasporas in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. These accounts are interwoven by multiple speakers among followers of Senegalese Sufi brotherhoods and passed down from generation to generation in Senegal and its diasporas. The weaving together and spreading of such texts themselves are part of the Sufi praxis. These oral texts, deeply rooted in their context of production, which dictates their form and functions, are still generally unknown to scholars of Islam in Senegal and West Africa. By filling this gap, this book contributes to the discourse of religions in general and Sufi Islam in particular.
Details
- Pages
- XIII, 209
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453910610
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433119903
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-1061-0
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (May)
- Keywords
- generation brotherhoods diasporas
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2013. IV, 209 pp., num. ill.
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