A01=Benjamin Soares
Author_Benjamin Soares
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- ISBN 9780748623587
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and written sources, Soares provides a richly detailed discussion of Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in Mali and offers an original analytical perspective for understanding changes in the practice of Islam more generally.
Benjamin F. Soares is Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
