Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa :
Leichtman, Mara,
Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman. - 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa . - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. The making of a Lebanese community in Senegal -- Introduction to Part 1. French colonial manipulation and Lebanese survival -- Senegalese independence and the question of belonging -- Shiʻi Islam comes to town: a biography of Shaykh al-Zayn -- Bringing Lebanese "back" to Shiʻi Islam -- Senegalese conversion to Shiʻi Islam. The vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict -- Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences -- Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam" -- The creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam -- Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism. Part 1. Part 2.
0253016053 9780253016058
Shīʻah--Senegal.
Shiites--Senegal.
Lebanese--Religion.--Senegal
Conversion--Shīʻah.
Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.
RELIGION / Islam / General
Lebanon--Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
BP192.7.S38 / L45 2015
297.8209663
Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman. - 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa . - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. The making of a Lebanese community in Senegal -- Introduction to Part 1. French colonial manipulation and Lebanese survival -- Senegalese independence and the question of belonging -- Shiʻi Islam comes to town: a biography of Shaykh al-Zayn -- Bringing Lebanese "back" to Shiʻi Islam -- Senegalese conversion to Shiʻi Islam. The vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict -- Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences -- Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam" -- The creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam -- Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism. Part 1. Part 2.
0253016053 9780253016058
Shīʻah--Senegal.
Shiites--Senegal.
Lebanese--Religion.--Senegal
Conversion--Shīʻah.
Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.
Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.
RELIGION / Islam / General
Lebanon--Emigration and immigration.
Electronic books.
BP192.7.S38 / L45 2015
297.8209663
