Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal /
Leichtman, Mara A.
Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / [Texte imprimé] : Mara A. Leichtman - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (294 p.) ; 24 cm - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa .
Bibliogr. p. 259-280
Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. 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 -- 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 Part 1. Part 2.
978-0-253-01599-0 978-0-253-01601-0
Shīʻah / Senegal Shiites / Senegal Lebanese / Senegal / Religion Lebanon / Emigration and immigration Conversion / Shīʻah. Shīʻah / Relations / Sunnites Sunnites / Relations / Shīʻah
252.09663
Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / [Texte imprimé] : Mara A. Leichtman - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (294 p.) ; 24 cm - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa .
Bibliogr. p. 259-280
Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. 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 -- 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 Part 1. Part 2.
978-0-253-01599-0 978-0-253-01601-0
Shīʻah / Senegal Shiites / Senegal Lebanese / Senegal / Religion Lebanon / Emigration and immigration Conversion / Shīʻah. Shīʻah / Relations / Sunnites Sunnites / Relations / Shīʻah
252.09663