Sean Hanretta
Biographic Data
| ID | 174388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Hanretta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanretta |
| SIGNATURE | HANRETTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life
It is something of an unusual task to put together a reflection on and assessment of a scholar whose formal academic publications totaled seventeen pages across an article, two research notes, a manuscript handlist, and a book review. 1 The career of Dr. William Allen Brown (1934-2007) illustrates, among other things, the limits of defining intellectual impact by the number of publications, or even PhD students trained or undergraduates taught.Wh…
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History
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Islam and Emancipation
Emancipation is a broad concept that includes liberation from slavery as well as broader projects of self-fulfillment. Muslims in Africa have drawn on Islamic sources both to justify and to critique enslavement, slaveholding, and slavery as an institution. Commercial law in particular recognized slave owners’ rights and early debates focused on categories of enslaveability. Slaves themselves drew on Islamic resources to improve their personal sit…
The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
The concept of culture, in the Boasian sense of the learned, variable, and mutable “structures” underlying “the behavior of the individuals composing a social group collectively and individually,” has played an important role in the production of knowledge about many human societies. This chapter examines two moments in the history of the culture concept as applied to West Africa. First, a moment during the process of the concept's formation in t…
Chapter 12. The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
New Religious Movements
The late twentieth century saw the rise of new forms of religiosity and a growing consensus about the utility of the concept of ‘religion’ to describe a wide range of beliefs and practices. The idea that Africa was perpetually in need of modernization and socio-economic ‘development’ influenced the theological and practical evolution of Christianity, Islam, and various ‘indigenous’ spiritual traditions. Pentecostalism and reformist Islam shared a…
BRUCE S. Hall. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
Bruce S. Hall's justly acclaimed study contributes to a decisive shift in scholarship. Read alongside other recent works, Hall's book makes it clear that racial thinking in Africa cannot be seen as an exclusively foreign implant. Despite the official anti-racism of Islam, tropes of racial difference circulated in West Africa through religious stories and the classical theory of climes. Muslim scholars in the Sahel responded to local political and…
Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: Being Muslim in Public in Colonial Ghana
In the mid-twentieth century, religious affiliation emerged as a key organizing principle in anti-colonial movements across the British Empire, including the Muslim League in India and the Khilafat and Khaksar Tehrik movements before it, the Northern People’s Congress in Nigeria, the parties that grew out of the General Council of Buddhist Associations in Burma, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so-called Neo-Mahdism in Sudan, and even the re-imag…
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community
To Never Shed Blood’: Yacouba Sylla, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Islamic Modernization in Côte d'Ivoire
After an ill-fated religious revival, the Sufi teacher Yacouba Sylla and his followers became wealthy and politically influential in post-Second World War Côte d'Ivoire. They argued for an understanding of democratization and development that defined both ideas in terms of their community's own mystical experiences and world-historical significance, rather than in terms of modernity. As a way of making sense of their own past and defending their …
Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla
In 1929, French colonial officials in Mauritania began monitoring a young man named Yacouba Sylla, the leader of a religious revival in the town of Kaédi. A Sufi teacher (shaykh), Yacouba Sylla had incurred the hostility of local administrators and the disdain of Kaédi's elite for preaching radical reforms of social and religious practice and for claiming authority out of proportion to his age and his rather minimal formal education. He claimed t…
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town, Benjamin F. Soares
Enfermement, prison et châtiments en Afrique
Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women's Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century
For a number of years the historiography of Southern Africa has been dominated by a materialist framework that has focused upon modes of production and forms of socio-political organization as the determining factors in historical change. Those historians concerned with the history of women in pre-colonial societies – even those who have privileged gender relations in their analyses – have largely been content to construct women's history by appl…
Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla
In 1929, French colonial officials in Mauritania began monitoring a young man named Yacouba Sylla, the leader of a religious revival in the town of Kaédi. A Sufi teacher (shaykh), Yacouba Sylla had incurred the hostility of local administrators and the disdain of Kaédi's elite for preaching radical reforms of social and religious practice and for claiming authority out of proportion to his age and his rather minimal formal education. He claimed t…
Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women's Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century
For a number of years the historiography of Southern Africa has been dominated by a materialist framework that has focused upon modes of production and forms of socio-political organization as the determining factors in historical change. Those historians concerned with the history of women in pre-colonial societies – even those who have privileged gender relations in their analyses – have largely been content to construct women's history by appl…
Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: Being Muslim in Public in Colonial Ghana
In the mid-twentieth century, religious affiliation emerged as a key organizing principle in anti-colonial movements across the British Empire, including the Muslim League in India and the Khilafat and Khaksar Tehrik movements before it, the Northern People’s Congress in Nigeria, the parties that grew out of the General Council of Buddhist Associations in Burma, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so-called Neo-Mahdism in Sudan, and even the re-imag…
To Never Shed Blood’: Yacouba Sylla, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Islamic Modernization in Côte d'Ivoire
After an ill-fated religious revival, the Sufi teacher Yacouba Sylla and his followers became wealthy and politically influential in post-Second World War Côte d'Ivoire. They argued for an understanding of democratization and development that defined both ideas in terms of their community's own mystical experiences and world-historical significance, rather than in terms of modernity. As a way of making sense of their own past and defending their …
Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women's Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century
For a number of years the historiography of Southern Africa has been dominated by a materialist framework that has focused upon modes of production and forms of socio-political organization as the determining factors in historical change. Those historians concerned with the history of women in pre-colonial societies – even those who have privileged gender relations in their analyses – have largely been content to construct women's history by appl…
Enfermement, prison et châtiments en Afrique
Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town, Benjamin F. Soares
To Never Shed Blood’: Yacouba Sylla, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Islamic Modernization in Côte d'Ivoire
After an ill-fated religious revival, the Sufi teacher Yacouba Sylla and his followers became wealthy and politically influential in post-Second World War Côte d'Ivoire. They argued for an understanding of democratization and development that defined both ideas in terms of their community's own mystical experiences and world-historical significance, rather than in terms of modernity. As a way of making sense of their own past and defending their …
Gender and Agency in the History of a West African Sufi Community: The Followers of Yacouba Sylla
In 1929, French colonial officials in Mauritania began monitoring a young man named Yacouba Sylla, the leader of a religious revival in the town of Kaédi. A Sufi teacher (shaykh), Yacouba Sylla had incurred the hostility of local administrators and the disdain of Kaédi's elite for preaching radical reforms of social and religious practice and for claiming authority out of proportion to his age and his rather minimal formal education. He claimed t…
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community
Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: Being Muslim in Public in Colonial Ghana
In the mid-twentieth century, religious affiliation emerged as a key organizing principle in anti-colonial movements across the British Empire, including the Muslim League in India and the Khilafat and Khaksar Tehrik movements before it, the Northern People’s Congress in Nigeria, the parties that grew out of the General Council of Buddhist Associations in Burma, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so-called Neo-Mahdism in Sudan, and even the re-imag…
New Religious Movements
The late twentieth century saw the rise of new forms of religiosity and a growing consensus about the utility of the concept of ‘religion’ to describe a wide range of beliefs and practices. The idea that Africa was perpetually in need of modernization and socio-economic ‘development’ influenced the theological and practical evolution of Christianity, Islam, and various ‘indigenous’ spiritual traditions. Pentecostalism and reformist Islam shared a…
BRUCE S. Hall. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
Bruce S. Hall's justly acclaimed study contributes to a decisive shift in scholarship. Read alongside other recent works, Hall's book makes it clear that racial thinking in Africa cannot be seen as an exclusively foreign implant. Despite the official anti-racism of Islam, tropes of racial difference circulated in West Africa through religious stories and the classical theory of climes. Muslim scholars in the Sahel responded to local political and…
The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
The concept of culture, in the Boasian sense of the learned, variable, and mutable “structures” underlying “the behavior of the individuals composing a social group collectively and individually,” has played an important role in the production of knowledge about many human societies. This chapter examines two moments in the history of the culture concept as applied to West Africa. First, a moment during the process of the concept's formation in t…
Chapter 12. The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
The River of Salvation Flows Through Africa: Edward Wilmot Blyden, Raphael Armattoe, and the Redemption of the Culture Concept
Islam and Emancipation
Emancipation is a broad concept that includes liberation from slavery as well as broader projects of self-fulfillment. Muslims in Africa have drawn on Islamic sources both to justify and to critique enslavement, slaveholding, and slavery as an institution. Commercial law in particular recognized slave owners’ rights and early debates focused on categories of enslaveability. Slaves themselves drew on Islamic resources to improve their personal sit…
William A. Brown and the Assessment of a Scholarly Life
It is something of an unusual task to put together a reflection on and assessment of a scholar whose formal academic publications totaled seventeen pages across an article, two research notes, a manuscript handlist, and a book review. 1 The career of Dr. William Allen Brown (1934-2007) illustrates, among other things, the limits of defining intellectual impact by the number of publications, or even PhD students trained or undergraduates taught.Wh…
Egypt in Africa: William A. Brown and a Liberating African History
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
History (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Islam (6 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (5 works)