Circuits and movement in religious transnationalism
A Tijani community between Mbour (Senegal), Fez (Morocco) and Mantes-la-Jolie (France)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8130011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdoulaye Kane (0000-0002-2830-5338, University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 175-194 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00083968.2025.2611750 |
| OpenAlex | W7133877652 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper examines the transnational circuits of travel and pilgrimage created by a Senegalese Sufi religious leader on a mission to preserve the orthodox Muslim and Sufi identity of his co-ethnics in France. Following Cole and Groes’s work on affective circuits and James Clifford’s work on travel, I propose in this paper to widen the ethnographic frame beyond the field tied to specific locations to explore the interstices, the transient and the transit connecting locations. The metaphor of a circuit is used to indicate the continued circularity of travel, reciprocity and exchanges between various nodes in the expanding geography of global Sufi networks such as the one under study here.
Action (physics · Government (linguistics · Movement (music · Work (physics · African Studies and Ethnography · African Studies and Geopolitics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Affective Circuits
The Homeland Is the Arena
A West African Sufi Master on the Global Stage
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
Vicious Circles
From 'ethnic group' to 'transnational community'? Senegalese migrants' ambivalent experiences and multiple trajectories
Transnational Mouridism and the Afro-Muslim Critique of Italy
An African Muslim Saint and his Followers in France
The affective economy of 'self-deportation
De la « baraka aux affaires
Fashioning Piety
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |