Cheikh Anta Babou
Biographic Data
| ID | 962536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheikh Anta Babou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheikh Anta |
| FAMILY NAME | Babou |
| SIGNATURE | BABOU C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0982-8125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Musulmans de côte d'ivoire à l’époque coloniale (1900–1960), un monde de karamokos
With un monde de karamokos, Jean Louis Triaud has written the definitive history of the expansion of Islam in Ivory Coast. The nearly 2,000-page, two-volume book is a masterful reconstruction of the history of Islam in the West African country. It takes the reader from the 1880s when Islam started to make its first significant steps in northern Ivory Coast to the 1960s when it became a powerful player in the religious, political, and economic sce…
The Senegalese “Social Contract” Revisited
This chapter examines the “social contract” between the Senegalese government and the Muslim Sufi orders. It specifically highlights the Muridiyya Muslim order, one of the most powerful political players in Senegal. In this relationship, Muslim clerics provide the government with the legitimacy to ensure the loyalty of the citizens and in return receive recognition and material support from the state, thereby promoting stability. The situation of…
A West African Sufi Master on the Global Stage
The recent wave of West African Muslim migration to the West started after the Great War and gained momentum in the 1960s. Sub-Saharan Africans have been particularly successful in finding a niche in Europe and North America partly because of the connection between immigrants and centers of Islamic spirituality and knowledge in Africa provided by a dynamic leadership that straddles the three continents. Based on extensive interviews in the United…
Diaspora, faith, and science
This article examines a development initiative spearheaded by the members of a transnational diaspora – the creation of a medical hospital in the holy city of Touba in central Senegal. Although the construction of the hospital is decidedly a philanthropic project, Hôpital Matlaboul Fawzaini is better understood as part of the larger place-making project of the Muridiyya and the pursuit of symbolic capital by a particular Mouride "dahira". The "da…
Decolonization or National Liberation
When discussing the end of British colonial rule in Africa, many historians have highlighted the role of postwar international relations and the impact of domestic imperial politics on decolonization and have failed to recognize the role of African nationalists. This article argues that such a viewpoint is flawed because it conceives of colonial policy makers as isolated and autonomous entities impervious to changes taking place in the colonies. …
Exploring the Impact of Migration Abroad and at Home
Cheikh Anta Babou, Migration and Cultural Change: Money, "Caste," Gender, and Social Status among Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States, Africa Today, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Winter, 2008), pp. 3-22
Masquerades of Modernity
Journal Article Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Get access Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Fighting the Greater Jihad
Contesting Space, Shaping Places
This article offers a cultural approach to Murid migration to eastern Bawol. It argues that Murid settlement of eastern Bawol was part of an effort to transform the land then under French colonial domination into daar al Islam (house of Islam) or daara al Murid (house of the Murids). This endeavor to create Murid sacred space in Bawol was a conscious effort undertaken by sheikhs and disciples under the leadership of Amadu Bamba. The process of bu…
Educating the Murid
The scholarship on the Muridiyya focuses mainly on the examination of the political and economic aspects of the brotherhood. Dominant scholarly interpretations see the organisation as an effective instrument of adaptation to a turbulent period in history. Disgruntled Wolof farmers joined the Muridiyya as a way of adjusting to the new order brought about by the demise of the pre-colonial kingdoms and the establishment of French domination in Seneg…
Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration
Journal Article Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration: The role of the Dahiras among the Murid muslim community of New York Get access Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 101, Issue 403, 1 April 2002, Pages 151–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.403.151 Published: 01 April 2002
Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration
Journal Article Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration: The role of the Dahiras among the Murid muslim community of New York Get access Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 101, Issue 403, 1 April 2002, Pages 151–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.403.151 Published: 01 April 2002
Educating the Murid
The scholarship on the Muridiyya focuses mainly on the examination of the political and economic aspects of the brotherhood. Dominant scholarly interpretations see the organisation as an effective instrument of adaptation to a turbulent period in history. Disgruntled Wolof farmers joined the Muridiyya as a way of adjusting to the new order brought about by the demise of the pre-colonial kingdoms and the establishment of French domination in Seneg…
Contesting Space, Shaping Places
This article offers a cultural approach to Murid migration to eastern Bawol. It argues that Murid settlement of eastern Bawol was part of an effort to transform the land then under French colonial domination into daar al Islam (house of Islam) or daara al Murid (house of the Murids). This endeavor to create Murid sacred space in Bawol was a conscious effort undertaken by sheikhs and disciples under the leadership of Amadu Bamba. The process of bu…
Decolonization or National Liberation
When discussing the end of British colonial rule in Africa, many historians have highlighted the role of postwar international relations and the impact of domestic imperial politics on decolonization and have failed to recognize the role of African nationalists. This article argues that such a viewpoint is flawed because it conceives of colonial policy makers as isolated and autonomous entities impervious to changes taking place in the colonies. …
Diaspora, faith, and science
This article examines a development initiative spearheaded by the members of a transnational diaspora – the creation of a medical hospital in the holy city of Touba in central Senegal. Although the construction of the hospital is decidedly a philanthropic project, Hôpital Matlaboul Fawzaini is better understood as part of the larger place-making project of the Muridiyya and the pursuit of symbolic capital by a particular Mouride "dahira". The "da…
Exploring the Impact of Migration Abroad and at Home
Cheikh Anta Babou, Migration and Cultural Change: Money, "Caste," Gender, and Social Status among Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States, Africa Today, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Winter, 2008), pp. 3-22
A West African Sufi Master on the Global Stage
The recent wave of West African Muslim migration to the West started after the Great War and gained momentum in the 1960s. Sub-Saharan Africans have been particularly successful in finding a niche in Europe and North America partly because of the connection between immigrants and centers of Islamic spirituality and knowledge in Africa provided by a dynamic leadership that straddles the three continents. Based on extensive interviews in the United…
Masquerades of Modernity
Journal Article Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Get access Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration
Journal Article Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration: The role of the Dahiras among the Murid muslim community of New York Get access Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 101, Issue 403, 1 April 2002, Pages 151–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.403.151 Published: 01 April 2002
Educating the Murid
The scholarship on the Muridiyya focuses mainly on the examination of the political and economic aspects of the brotherhood. Dominant scholarly interpretations see the organisation as an effective instrument of adaptation to a turbulent period in history. Disgruntled Wolof farmers joined the Muridiyya as a way of adjusting to the new order brought about by the demise of the pre-colonial kingdoms and the establishment of French domination in Seneg…
Contesting Space, Shaping Places
This article offers a cultural approach to Murid migration to eastern Bawol. It argues that Murid settlement of eastern Bawol was part of an effort to transform the land then under French colonial domination into daar al Islam (house of Islam) or daara al Murid (house of the Murids). This endeavor to create Murid sacred space in Bawol was a conscious effort undertaken by sheikhs and disciples under the leadership of Amadu Bamba. The process of bu…
Fighting the Greater Jihad
Masquerades of Modernity
Journal Article Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Get access Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 228. $39.95. Cheikh Anta Babou Cheikh Anta Babou University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Exploring the Impact of Migration Abroad and at Home
Cheikh Anta Babou, Migration and Cultural Change: Money, "Caste," Gender, and Social Status among Senegalese Female Hair Braiders in the United States, Africa Today, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Winter, 2008), pp. 3-22
Decolonization or National Liberation
When discussing the end of British colonial rule in Africa, many historians have highlighted the role of postwar international relations and the impact of domestic imperial politics on decolonization and have failed to recognize the role of African nationalists. This article argues that such a viewpoint is flawed because it conceives of colonial policy makers as isolated and autonomous entities impervious to changes taking place in the colonies. …
A West African Sufi Master on the Global Stage
The recent wave of West African Muslim migration to the West started after the Great War and gained momentum in the 1960s. Sub-Saharan Africans have been particularly successful in finding a niche in Europe and North America partly because of the connection between immigrants and centers of Islamic spirituality and knowledge in Africa provided by a dynamic leadership that straddles the three continents. Based on extensive interviews in the United…
Diaspora, faith, and science
This article examines a development initiative spearheaded by the members of a transnational diaspora – the creation of a medical hospital in the holy city of Touba in central Senegal. Although the construction of the hospital is decidedly a philanthropic project, Hôpital Matlaboul Fawzaini is better understood as part of the larger place-making project of the Muridiyya and the pursuit of symbolic capital by a particular Mouride "dahira". The "da…
The Senegalese “Social Contract” Revisited
This chapter examines the “social contract” between the Senegalese government and the Muslim Sufi orders. It specifically highlights the Muridiyya Muslim order, one of the most powerful political players in Senegal. In this relationship, Muslim clerics provide the government with the legitimacy to ensure the loyalty of the citizens and in return receive recognition and material support from the state, thereby promoting stability. The situation of…
Musulmans de côte d'ivoire à l’époque coloniale (1900–1960), un monde de karamokos
With un monde de karamokos, Jean Louis Triaud has written the definitive history of the expansion of Islam in Ivory Coast. The nearly 2,000-page, two-volume book is a masterful reconstruction of the history of Islam in the West African country. It takes the reader from the 1880s when Islam started to make its first significant steps in northern Ivory Coast to the 1960s when it became a powerful player in the religious, political, and economic sce…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · History (6 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works)