Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal Leichtman, Mara creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. inu 2015 monographic eng 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) 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. Mara A. Leichtman. Includes bibliographical references and index. f-sg--- a-le--- Shīʻah Senegal Shiites Senegal Lebanese Senegal Religion Lebanon Emigration and immigration Conversion Shīʻah Shīʻah Relations Sunnites Sunnites Relations Shīʻah RELIGION / Islam / General BP192.7.S38 L45 2015 297.8209663 Leichtman, Mara, author. (DLC) 2014048975 0253016053 9780253016058 http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=2122782 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1048771 http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=2122782 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1048771 YDXCP 150805 20200709060400.0 ocn916618695 eng