TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leichtman,Mara
TI  - Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa: Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal 
T2  - Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
SN  - 0253016053
AV  - BP192.7.S38 L45 2015
U1  - 297.8209663 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Shīʻah
KW  - Senegal
KW  - Shiites
KW  - Lebanese
KW  - Religion
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Relations
KW  - Sunnites
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Lebanon
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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