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Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal
- Title
- Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman.
- Author
- Leichtman, Mara
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 294 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Series Statement
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
- Uniform Title
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. Part 1. The making of a Lebanese community in Senegal -- Introduction to Part 1. French colonial manipulation and Lebanese survival -- Senegalese independence and the question of belonging -- Shiʻi Islam comes to town: a biography of Shaykh al-Zayn -- Bringing Lebanese "back" to Shiʻi Islam -- Part 2. Senegalese conversion to Shiʻi Islam. The vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict -- Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences -- Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam" -- The creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam -- Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7632
- ISBN
- 9780253015990 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0253015995 (cl : alk. paper)
- 9780253016010 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0253016010 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780253016058 (eb)
- 0253016053 (eb)
- LCCN
- 2014048975
- OCLC
- 893896111
- Author
- Leichtman, Mara, author.
- Title
- Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman.
- Publisher
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Public cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaPublic cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-279) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7632