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ID20084445
AutoresBenjamin F Soares (Mansfield University, autor correspondente)
EditoresArmando Salvatore (0000-0002-6718-7717), Dale F Eickelman
Ano2004
Páginas243-246
Data de publicação2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoPublic Islam and the Common Good (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789047402824_012
OpenAlexW2130149277
ISBN9789047402824
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23
Referências citadas2

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 religious studies-have focused on Sufi orders in various countries of the rgion. It is important to note, however, that Sufi orders have never had the importance in large parts of West Africa-in Mali, Niger, Cte d'Ivoire-that they may have had, say, in Senegal or elsewhere in the Muslim world (cf. Soares 1997(cf. Soares , 1999)). When scholars in West Africa have not focused on Sufi orders, they have tended to study the critics of the Sufi orders-so-called "reformists," Salafis, or, more recently, Islamists (for example, Rosander and Westerlund 1997). Most West African Muslims I have encountered during the course of my research-and

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