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Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman.

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Main Author: Leichtman, Mara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Subjects:
Shīʻah > Senegal.
Shiites > Senegal.
Lebanese > Senegal > Religion.
Lebanon > Emigration and immigration.
Conversion > Shīʻah.
Shīʻah > Relations > Sunnites.
Sunnites > Relations > Shīʻah.
Konversion.
Schiiten.
Libanesen.
Senegal.
Chiites > Sénégal.
Libanais > Sénégal > Religion.
Sunnites > Relations > Chiites.
Liban > Émigration et immigration.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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