Leichtman, Mara, <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0253016053 9780253016058 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Shīʻah--Senegal.<br/>Shiites--Senegal.<br/>Lebanese--Religion.--Senegal<br/>Conversion--Shīʻah.<br/>Shīʻah--Relations--Sunnites.<br/>Sunnites--Relations--Shīʻah.<br/>RELIGION / Islam / General
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Lebanon--Emigration and immigration.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BP192.7.S38  / L45 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297.8209663