03239cam a2200637Ii 4500 ocn916618695 OCoLC 20200709060400.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 150805s2015 inu ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP eng rda YDXCP EBLCP N$T 0253016053 electronic bk. 9780253016058 electronic bk. 9780253015990 (cl : alk. paper) 0253015995 (cl : alk. paper) 9780253016010 (pb : alk. paper) 0253016010 (pb : alk. paper) (OCoLC)916618695 1048771 (N$T) f-sg--- a-le--- BP192.7.S38 L45 2015 REL 037000 bisacsh 297.8209663 23 N$TA Leichtman, Mara, author. Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015. 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface: Islam and politics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: locating cosmopolitan Shiʻi Islamic movements in Senegal. Part 1. The making of a Lebanese community in Senegal -- Introduction to Part 1. French colonial manipulation and Lebanese survival -- Senegalese independence and the question of belonging -- Shiʻi Islam comes to town: a biography of Shaykh al-Zayn -- Bringing Lebanese "back" to Shiʻi Islam -- Part 2. Senegalese conversion to Shiʻi Islam. The vernacularization of Shiʻi Islam: competition and conflict -- Migrating from one's parents' traditions: narrating conversion experiences -- Interlude: ʻUmar: converting to an "intellectual Islam" -- The creation of a Senegalese Shiʻi Islam -- Coda: on Shiʻi Islam, anthropology, and cosmopolitanism. Description based on print version record. Print version record. Shīʻah Senegal. Shiites Senegal. Lebanese Senegal Religion. Lebanon Emigration and immigration. Conversion Shīʻah. Shīʻah Relations Sunnites. Sunnites Relations Shīʻah. RELIGION / Islam / General bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Leichtman, Mara, author. Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa 0253016053 (DLC) 2014048975 Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Click here to view book http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=2122782 Ebook Library EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1048771 YBP Library Services YANK 12198427 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL2122782 EBSCOhost EBSC 1048771 cpp1794 02 N$T 56347 56347