Hamadoun Koufa
Spearhead of radicalism in central Mali
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20047439 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Modibo Galy Cissé (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 152-173 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Biographies of Radicalization (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110623628-011 |
| OpenAlex | W3194497933 |
| ISBN | 9783110623628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Since the end of the jahilaaku, the Fulani community of central Mali has been engaged in extensive breeding and Quranic education. Notwithstanding the introduction of the Western education model, Islamic education is still the most popular. Thus, from the Fulani hegemony in the 19th century to the present day, collective memory in each generation reveres men who have marked history by their mastery of the Quran and their knowledge of hadiths. Hamadoun Koufa is one such man. Born in the early 1960s in Guimbala, he was a brilliant talibé and appreciated by his masters. A santaarou (advanced student of the Quran and hadiths), he was a poet-singer who animated a company of young girls he held in his thrall and amazed by songs full of love, romance, and flattery. After being forgotten for a decade, he returned under another hat, that of a preacher. With a closely literal interpretation of the Quran, he attacked everyone, from the simple Quranic teachers to the great families of scholars. His commitment to the rejection of the scholar-family code led him to the Dawa Tabligh and then to the Tuareg Iyad Ag Ghali, his trajectory crowned by a stay at Markaz Bamako. Returning to the Delta, he began the Dawa, followed by a cohort of followers of various origins
Art · Hegemony · Islam · Literature · Political radicalism · Political science · Romance · Sociology · Theology · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |