Donal B Cruise O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4530822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donal B Cruise O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donal B Cruise |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN D B C O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Chiefs, Saints and Bureaucrats
Technical superiority in the means of violence, in military equipment and organisation, made possible the gradual extension of French control over the hinterland of Senegal in the late nineteenth century (1852–1900). The motive drive behind this imperial expansion, a combination of simple economic greed (market outlets, resources) and a more diffuse yearning for national glory, lies beyond the concern of this study: but it may be noted that the o…
Land, Cash and Charisma
INTRODUCTION: A MYTH OF EXPLOITATATION The saints of the Mouride brotherhood (the spiritual heirs to Amadu Bamba and his associates) have consistently been portrayed by outside observers as a holy aristocracy enjoying great material privileges through the economic exploitation of some half a million poor peasant disciples. The disciple is promised his reward in the next world, and paradise is purchased from the saint by work in his service and by…
Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa
Satan Steps out from the Shadows Religion and Politics in Africa
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Satan Steps Out from the Shadows Religion and Politics in Africa
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The Senegalese exception
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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, the People and the State
Contemporary West African States
Contemporary West African States
The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of depen…
Contemporary West African States
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam
Contemporary West African states
Charisma and brotherhood in African Islam
The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985
Journal Article The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985 Get access The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985, by Robert Fatton, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder and London, 1987. 171 pp. $25 hardback. ISBN 1 55587 010 4. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Wails and whispers: The people's voice in West African Muslim politics
The principle of the sovereignty of the people is at the base of all forms of government and it hides under the least free of institutions. A. de Tocqueville, Recollections If democracy is to be discovered beneath any form of government, as Tocqueville suggests, then a problem remains when reviewing African politics in ascertaining the solidity of government itself. Aristide Zolberg in an influential article of 1968 described the politics of the …
The Holy War of Umar Tal: The western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century
Journal Article The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century Get access The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century, by David Robinson. Clarendon Press Oxford Studies in African Affairs, 1985. 375 pp. £28. ISBN 0 19 822720 5. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
West African Sufi. The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal
Partisan Picture
Journal Article PARTISAN PICTURE Get access Historical dictionary of Senegal, by Lucie G. Colvin. Scarcrow Press, London and Metuchen, New Jersey, 1981. xiv+339 pp. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 326, January 1983, Page 133, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097486 Pub…
Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays
The Influence of Islam upon Africa
Journal Article The Influence of Islam upon Africa Get access The Influence of Islam upon Africa. 2nd edn. By J. Spencer Trimingham. London, New York: Longman; Beirut: Libraire du Liban. 1980. (First publ. 1968.) 182 pp. Donal B. Cruise O'Brien Donal B. Cruise O'Brien 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, September 1980, P…
A versatile charisma: The Mouride Brotherhood 1967-1975
TheMouride brotherhood has by now become the subject of an abundant literature, sociological and other, since its foundation in the 1880s (notably Paul Marty 1913, L. Nekkach 1952, V. Monteil 1962, Shaikh Tidiane Sy 1969, J. Copans et al. 1972, F. Dumont 1975, Donal Cruise O'Brien 1971, 1975) (1). Looking over this literature today, one is impressed by the remarkable resilience and versatility of this holy organization: charismatic community and …
Saints and Politicians: Essays in the Organization of a Senegalese Peasant Society
Saints and Politicians: Essays in the Organisation of a Senegalese Peasant Society
Saints and Politicians. Essays in the Organization of a Senegalese Peasant Society
Charisma and brotherhood in African Islam
Islam, the People and the State
The Holy War of Umar Tal: The western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century
Journal Article The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century Get access The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century, by David Robinson. Clarendon Press Oxford Studies in African Affairs, 1985. 375 pp. £28. ISBN 0 19 822720 5. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood
Co-operators and Bureaucrats: Class Formation in a Senegalese Peasant Society
IntroductionRecent rural unrest in Senegal, the malaise paysan and the spreading rejection of commercial agriculture, have focused official and journalistic attention on the predicament of that country's peasantry. This is a predicament in large part defined by nature, which has endowed most of Senegal with soils so poor as to leave little practical alternative to the groundnut as a source of export revenue. Declining world market prices for this…
Contemporary West African states
Le talibé mouride: La soumission dans une confrérie religieuse sénégalaise
Cruise O'Brien Donal. Le talibé mouride : La soumission dans une confrérie religieuse sénégalaise.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 10, n°40, 1970. pp. 562-578
Contemporary West African States
The Senegalese exception
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A versatile charisma: The Mouride Brotherhood 1967-1975
TheMouride brotherhood has by now become the subject of an abundant literature, sociological and other, since its foundation in the 1880s (notably Paul Marty 1913, L. Nekkach 1952, V. Monteil 1962, Shaikh Tidiane Sy 1969, J. Copans et al. 1972, F. Dumont 1975, Donal Cruise O'Brien 1971, 1975) (1). Looking over this literature today, one is impressed by the remarkable resilience and versatility of this holy organization: charismatic community and …
Contemporary West African States
The Influence of Islam upon Africa
Journal Article The Influence of Islam upon Africa Get access The Influence of Islam upon Africa. 2nd edn. By J. Spencer Trimingham. London, New York: Longman; Beirut: Libraire du Liban. 1980. (First publ. 1968.) 182 pp. Donal B. Cruise O'Brien Donal B. Cruise O'Brien 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, September 1980, P…
Mouride Studies
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Le talibé mouride: La soumission dans une confrérie religieuse sénégalaise
Cruise O'Brien Donal. Le talibé mouride : La soumission dans une confrérie religieuse sénégalaise.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 10, n°40, 1970. pp. 562-578
Mouride Studies
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Muslim Brotherhoods and Politics in Senegal
Co-operators and Bureaucrats: Class Formation in a Senegalese Peasant Society
IntroductionRecent rural unrest in Senegal, the malaise paysan and the spreading rejection of commercial agriculture, have focused official and journalistic attention on the predicament of that country's peasantry. This is a predicament in large part defined by nature, which has endowed most of Senegal with soils so poor as to leave little practical alternative to the groundnut as a source of export revenue. Declining world market prices for this…
Separate Realities: A Review of Literature on Sufism
The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood. By Donal B. Cruise O'Brien. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Pp. xiv, 321. $11.25. The Sufi Orders in Islam. By J. S. Trimingham. New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. Pp. viii, 333. $10.50. In Search of the Miraculous. By P. D. Ouspensky. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1949. Pp. xi, 399. $2.75. The Psychology of Man's…
The Mourides of Senegal: The Political and Economic Organization of an Islamic Brotherhood
Saints & Politicians: Essays in the organisation of a Senegalese peasant society
Political life among the Wolof (the largest and most powerful of Senegal's 'tribal' groups) is the principal theme of this collection of essays. The focus of study is on African political leadership, in towns and villages. Within the constraints of alien control or influence, it is argued, cultural and organisational barriers have consistently allowed a wide range of initiative to African leaders and communities in a creative and flexible adjustm…
Saints and Politicians: Essays in the Organization of a Senegalese Peasant Society
Saints and Politicians: Essays in the Organisation of a Senegalese Peasant Society
Saints and Politicians. Essays in the Organization of a Senegalese Peasant Society
A versatile charisma: The Mouride Brotherhood 1967-1975
TheMouride brotherhood has by now become the subject of an abundant literature, sociological and other, since its foundation in the 1880s (notably Paul Marty 1913, L. Nekkach 1952, V. Monteil 1962, Shaikh Tidiane Sy 1969, J. Copans et al. 1972, F. Dumont 1975, Donal Cruise O'Brien 1971, 1975) (1). Looking over this literature today, one is impressed by the remarkable resilience and versatility of this holy organization: charismatic community and …
The Influence of Islam upon Africa
Journal Article The Influence of Islam upon Africa Get access The Influence of Islam upon Africa. 2nd edn. By J. Spencer Trimingham. London, New York: Longman; Beirut: Libraire du Liban. 1980. (First publ. 1968.) 182 pp. Donal B. Cruise O'Brien Donal B. Cruise O'Brien 1School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 4, September 1980, P…
Colonial West Africa: Collected Essays
Partisan Picture
Journal Article PARTISAN PICTURE Get access Historical dictionary of Senegal, by Lucie G. Colvin. Scarcrow Press, London and Metuchen, New Jersey, 1981. xiv+339 pp. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 326, January 1983, Page 133, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097486 Pub…
West African Sufi. The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal
Wails and whispers: The people's voice in West African Muslim politics
The principle of the sovereignty of the people is at the base of all forms of government and it hides under the least free of institutions. A. de Tocqueville, Recollections If democracy is to be discovered beneath any form of government, as Tocqueville suggests, then a problem remains when reviewing African politics in ascertaining the solidity of government itself. Aristide Zolberg in an influential article of 1968 described the politics of the …
The Holy War of Umar Tal: The western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century
Journal Article The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century Get access The Holy War OF Umar Tal: the western Sudan in the Mid-nineteenth century, by David Robinson. Clarendon Press Oxford Studies in African Affairs, 1985. 375 pp. £28. ISBN 0 19 822720 5. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Charisma and brotherhood in African Islam
The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985
Journal Article The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985 Get access The Meaning of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's passive revolution, 1975–1985, by Robert Fatton, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder and London, 1987. 171 pp. $25 hardback. ISBN 1 55587 010 4. DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN DONAL B. CRUISE O'BRIEN School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
Contemporary West African states
Contemporary West African States
The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of depen…
Contemporary West African States
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam
Islam, the People and the State
Contemporary West African States
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