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Author Cantone, Cleo.

Title Making and remaking mosques in Senegal [electronic resource] / by Cleo Cantone.

Imprint Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description xliv, 408 p. [22 p.] of plates : ill., maps.
Series Islam in Africa, 1570-3754 ; v. 13
Note Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--SOAS, University of London, 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century) -- The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920) -- Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s) -- The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present) -- Women, space and West African mosques.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Mosques -- Senegal.
Mosques -- Senegal -- History.
Islamic architecture -- Senegal -- History.
Women in Islam -- Senegal -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004203372 (hardback alk. paper)
9789004217508 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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