Benjamin F Soares
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 233030 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Benjamin F Soares |
| NOMBRES | Benjamin F |
| APELLIDO | Soares |
| FIRMA | SOARES B F |
| AFILIACIONES | African Studies Centre |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
“Rasta” Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
This chapter is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among the Muslim youth culture in contemporary Mali. Much recent scholarship about Muslim youth has privileged Islamism, trajectories of political radicalization, as well as ethical modes of self-fashioning associated with so-called piety movements in the Muslim world, particularly in the Arab Middle East and among Muslims living in Eur…
Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered
The Attempt to Reform Family Law in Mali
In this paper, I am concerned with understanding the recent efforts to reform the laws governing marriage and inheritance, the code de la famille or the Family Code in Mali. Since the advent of multiparty elections in the 1990s, prominent members of the Malian government and civil servants, Malian women's rights activists, secular NGOs, and international and bilateral donors have made efforts to promote various social reforms, including the advan…
Introduction to Special Issue
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Benjamin F. Soares, Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim West Africa in the Age of Neoliberalism, Africa Today, Vol. 54, No. 3, Muslim West Africa in the Age of Neoliberalism (Spring, 2008), pp. vii-xii
Introduction
During the decade and a half since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen momentous changes. Indeed, since the early 1990s, economic and political reform and liberalization, the weakening of the state (or even in some cases its collapse), and increased global interconnections have all had dramatic impacts on the continent. Such processes have also influenced Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa in ways that are still not well un…
Saint and Sufi in Contemporary Mali
Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa
‘The timely interest of Islam in politics and in the international arena needs no emphasis in the context of the post 9/11 world. While much attention has been focused on these issues by academics and policymakers, sub-Saharan African has been largely ignored. This volume is thus a very welcome addition to the literature, filling a real need in terms of close, research-based accounts of the dynamics of Islam in a wide range of countries.’ Leonard…
Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
Are the Sufi orders—especially in the reified form in which we often learn about them—as important to Senegalese Muslims as everyone seems to insist? Such a question might seem counter-intuitive to anyone who has ever visited Senegal. There is, after all, that ubiquitous image of Amadou Bamba (which appears on the cover of both books under review), the founder of the Senegalese Sufi order, the Mourides. However, one should be careful not to mista…
Introduction
Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era
If before 11 September 2001, many praised Mali as a model of democracy, secularism and toleration, many have now begun to express concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Mali. I consider a number of recent public debates in Mali over morality, so-called women's issues, and the proposed changes in the Family Code and show how the perspectives of many Malians on these issues are not new but rather relate to longstanding and ongoing deba…
Islam and the prayer economy
Exploring the development of different Islamic discourses practices and institutions, this text traces the transformation of ideas in Islam in Mali, from the pre-colonial period through to the modern day.
The Public Sphere and the Postcolony
Chapter 8 considers the importance of the secular state, the development of the public sphere, and mass media, as well as the impact of these on Nioro as a social and religious space at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the question of the Hamawiyya and its absent shaykh, it discusses the development of a new incipient tradition of Islam that allows some to bypass some of the debates between Muslims in this religious center.
Islam and the Prayer Economy
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
Glossary
Since the late nineteenth Century and the onset of colonial rule in West Africa, scholars, including colonial scholar administrators, hve devoted considrable attention to the study of what has been assumed to be th main institutional form for th practice of Islam in West Africa: the Sufi orders, the mystical paths. In an almost unending stream of studies, various scholars-politica! scientists, sociologists, geographers, historians, and those in r…
An African Muslim Saint and his Followers in France
In this paper, I explore the practice of Islam among a relatively understudied group of Muslim migrants in France, the Halpulaaren, some of whom have been living in France for more than three decades. Drawing on field research in Senegal, Mali and France, I consider a Halpulaaren Muslim religious leader with a reputation as a living Muslim saint and his followers in France as a way to try to understand some of the ways of being Muslim in the shad…
Notes on the anthropological study of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
In this paper, I consider the interpretation of and the ethnographic production about Islam and Muslim societies, particularly in Africa. The Orientalist 'doctrine' of an unchanging and timeless Islam has long been shown to be inadequate for understanding the obvious diversity and complexity within and between Muslim societies. However, the limitations of certain anthropological studies—notably, their almost exclusive focus on local context and c…
The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French Colonial West Africa
One of the most unintended consequences of colonial rule in French West Africa was the Islamization of large parts of it. Islamic movements have often been interpreted in specifically plitical terms, as instances of ‘collaboration’ with or ‘resistance’ to colonial domination. They can better be understood in terms of the emergence of a qualitatively new ‘Islamic sphere7rsquo; conceptually separate from ‘particular’ affiliations such as ethnicity,…
Muslim Politics
Muslim Politics. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. xi. 235 pp., figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, references, index
The Prayer Economy in a Malian Town
L'économie de la prière dans une ville malienne. - Cet article examine le rôle de l'« économie de la prière » dans une ville malienne, c'est-à-dire la gamme de pratiques à la fois complexes et répandues grâce auxquelles des présents sont offerts en abondance à des chefs religieux musulmans. Il est consacré à l'étude des chefs renommés de deux confréries sufi, de leurs nombreux disciples et des relations qui définissent le champ de ces transferts …
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam
Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Introduction Louis Brenner: Concepts of Tariqa in West Africa: The case of the Qadiriyya Jean-Louis Triaud: Khalwa and the career of sainthood: An interpretative essay Francois Constantin: Charisma and the crisis of power in East Africa Rene Otayek: Muslim charisma in Burkina Faso Christian Coulon: Women, Islam, and Baraka Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Charisma comes to town: Mouride urbanization 1945-1986 Peter B. Clarke: Cha…
Islam and the Prayer Economy
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French Colonial West Africa
One of the most unintended consequences of colonial rule in French West Africa was the Islamization of large parts of it. Islamic movements have often been interpreted in specifically plitical terms, as instances of ‘collaboration’ with or ‘resistance’ to colonial domination. They can better be understood in terms of the emergence of a qualitatively new ‘Islamic sphere7rsquo; conceptually separate from ‘particular’ affiliations such as ethnicity,…
Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era
If before 11 September 2001, many praised Mali as a model of democracy, secularism and toleration, many have now begun to express concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Mali. I consider a number of recent public debates in Mali over morality, so-called women's issues, and the proposed changes in the Family Code and show how the perspectives of many Malians on these issues are not new but rather relate to longstanding and ongoing deba…
Notes on the anthropological study of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
In this paper, I consider the interpretation of and the ethnographic production about Islam and Muslim societies, particularly in Africa. The Orientalist 'doctrine' of an unchanging and timeless Islam has long been shown to be inadequate for understanding the obvious diversity and complexity within and between Muslim societies. However, the limitations of certain anthropological studies—notably, their almost exclusive focus on local context and c…
The Attempt to Reform Family Law in Mali
In this paper, I am concerned with understanding the recent efforts to reform the laws governing marriage and inheritance, the code de la famille or the Family Code in Mali. Since the advent of multiparty elections in the 1990s, prominent members of the Malian government and civil servants, Malian women's rights activists, secular NGOs, and international and bilateral donors have made efforts to promote various social reforms, including the advan…
Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
Are the Sufi orders—especially in the reified form in which we often learn about them—as important to Senegalese Muslims as everyone seems to insist? Such a question might seem counter-intuitive to anyone who has ever visited Senegal. There is, after all, that ubiquitous image of Amadou Bamba (which appears on the cover of both books under review), the founder of the Senegalese Sufi order, the Mourides. However, one should be careful not to mista…
The Prayer Economy in a Malian Town
L'économie de la prière dans une ville malienne. - Cet article examine le rôle de l'« économie de la prière » dans une ville malienne, c'est-à-dire la gamme de pratiques à la fois complexes et répandues grâce auxquelles des présents sont offerts en abondance à des chefs religieux musulmans. Il est consacré à l'étude des chefs renommés de deux confréries sufi, de leurs nombreux disciples et des relations qui définissent le champ de ces transferts …
An African Muslim Saint and his Followers in France
In this paper, I explore the practice of Islam among a relatively understudied group of Muslim migrants in France, the Halpulaaren, some of whom have been living in France for more than three decades. Drawing on field research in Senegal, Mali and France, I consider a Halpulaaren Muslim religious leader with a reputation as a living Muslim saint and his followers in France as a way to try to understand some of the ways of being Muslim in the shad…
Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam
Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Introduction Louis Brenner: Concepts of Tariqa in West Africa: The case of the Qadiriyya Jean-Louis Triaud: Khalwa and the career of sainthood: An interpretative essay Francois Constantin: Charisma and the crisis of power in East Africa Rene Otayek: Muslim charisma in Burkina Faso Christian Coulon: Women, Islam, and Baraka Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Charisma comes to town: Mouride urbanization 1945-1986 Peter B. Clarke: Cha…
The Prayer Economy in a Malian Town
L'économie de la prière dans une ville malienne. - Cet article examine le rôle de l'« économie de la prière » dans une ville malienne, c'est-à-dire la gamme de pratiques à la fois complexes et répandues grâce auxquelles des présents sont offerts en abondance à des chefs religieux musulmans. Il est consacré à l'étude des chefs renommés de deux confréries sufi, de leurs nombreux disciples et des relations qui définissent le champ de ces transferts …
Muslim Politics
Muslim Politics. Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. xi. 235 pp., figures, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, references, index
The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French Colonial West Africa
One of the most unintended consequences of colonial rule in French West Africa was the Islamization of large parts of it. Islamic movements have often been interpreted in specifically plitical terms, as instances of ‘collaboration’ with or ‘resistance’ to colonial domination. They can better be understood in terms of the emergence of a qualitatively new ‘Islamic sphere7rsquo; conceptually separate from ‘particular’ affiliations such as ethnicity,…
Notes on the anthropological study of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
In this paper, I consider the interpretation of and the ethnographic production about Islam and Muslim societies, particularly in Africa. The Orientalist 'doctrine' of an unchanging and timeless Islam has long been shown to be inadequate for understanding the obvious diversity and complexity within and between Muslim societies. However, the limitations of certain anthropological studies—notably, their almost exclusive focus on local context and c…
Glossary
Since the late nineteenth Century and the onset of colonial rule in West Africa, scholars, including colonial scholar administrators, hve devoted considrable attention to the study of what has been assumed to be th main institutional form for th practice of Islam in West Africa: the Sufi orders, the mystical paths. In an almost unending stream of studies, various scholars-politica! scientists, sociologists, geographers, historians, and those in r…
An African Muslim Saint and his Followers in France
In this paper, I explore the practice of Islam among a relatively understudied group of Muslim migrants in France, the Halpulaaren, some of whom have been living in France for more than three decades. Drawing on field research in Senegal, Mali and France, I consider a Halpulaaren Muslim religious leader with a reputation as a living Muslim saint and his followers in France as a way to try to understand some of the ways of being Muslim in the shad…
Islam and the prayer economy
Exploring the development of different Islamic discourses practices and institutions, this text traces the transformation of ideas in Islam in Mali, from the pre-colonial period through to the modern day.
The Public Sphere and the Postcolony
Chapter 8 considers the importance of the secular state, the development of the public sphere, and mass media, as well as the impact of these on Nioro as a social and religious space at the end of the twentieth century. Returning to the question of the Hamawiyya and its absent shaykh, it discusses the development of a new incipient tradition of Islam that allows some to bypass some of the debates between Muslims in this religious center.
Islam and the Prayer Economy
Benjamin F. Scares. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in Malian Town. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xiv + 306 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. Islam and the frayer Economy is an ethnographic and historical study of Muslim society among the people of Nioro, town in western near the border with Mauritania, which the French colonial administrator Paul Marty once described as veri…
Introduction
Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era
If before 11 September 2001, many praised Mali as a model of democracy, secularism and toleration, many have now begun to express concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Mali. I consider a number of recent public debates in Mali over morality, so-called women's issues, and the proposed changes in the Family Code and show how the perspectives of many Malians on these issues are not new but rather relate to longstanding and ongoing deba…
Introduction
During the decade and a half since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen momentous changes. Indeed, since the early 1990s, economic and political reform and liberalization, the weakening of the state (or even in some cases its collapse), and increased global interconnections have all had dramatic impacts on the continent. Such processes have also influenced Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa in ways that are still not well un…
Saint and Sufi in Contemporary Mali
Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa
‘The timely interest of Islam in politics and in the international arena needs no emphasis in the context of the post 9/11 world. While much attention has been focused on these issues by academics and policymakers, sub-Saharan African has been largely ignored. This volume is thus a very welcome addition to the literature, filling a real need in terms of close, research-based accounts of the dynamics of Islam in a wide range of countries.’ Leonard…
Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa
Are the Sufi orders—especially in the reified form in which we often learn about them—as important to Senegalese Muslims as everyone seems to insist? Such a question might seem counter-intuitive to anyone who has ever visited Senegal. There is, after all, that ubiquitous image of Amadou Bamba (which appears on the cover of both books under review), the founder of the Senegalese Sufi order, the Mourides. However, one should be careful not to mista…
Introduction to Special Issue
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Benjamin F. Soares, Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim West Africa in the Age of Neoliberalism, Africa Today, Vol. 54, No. 3, Muslim West Africa in the Age of Neoliberalism (Spring, 2008), pp. vii-xii
The Attempt to Reform Family Law in Mali
In this paper, I am concerned with understanding the recent efforts to reform the laws governing marriage and inheritance, the code de la famille or the Family Code in Mali. Since the advent of multiparty elections in the 1990s, prominent members of the Malian government and civil servants, Malian women's rights activists, secular NGOs, and international and bilateral donors have made efforts to promote various social reforms, including the advan…
“Rasta” Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
This chapter is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among the Muslim youth culture in contemporary Mali. Much recent scholarship about Muslim youth has privileged Islamism, trajectories of political radicalization, as well as ethical modes of self-fashioning associated with so-called piety movements in the Muslim world, particularly in the Arab Middle East and among Muslims living in Eur…
Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered
Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Islam (13 obras) · Philosophy (10 obras) · History (9 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (9 obras) · African history and culture analysis (8 obras) · African Studies and Geopolitics (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (8 obras)