| Description |
xvi, 361 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm. |
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Western African studies |
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Western African studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349) and index. |
| Contents |
part 1. The framework. Space, time, and structure. -- part 2. Bases of accommodation. Sources, discourses, and mediators of knowledge -- Conquest and colonial rule -- France as a "Muslim power" -- Civil society : Saint-Louis in the French imperial sphere -- The sons of Ndar : the Muslim merchants of Saint-Louis. -- part 3. Patterns of accommodation. The obstacles to accommodation for the Umarians -- Saad Buh and the Fadiliyya way -- Sidyiyya Baba : co-architect of colonial Mauritania -- Malik Sy : teacher in the new colonial order -- Amadu Bamba : a complex path to accommodation. |
| Summary |
"Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation, David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the colonial authorities of French West Africa in order to preserve autonomy within the religious, social, and economic realms while abandoning the political sphere to their non-Muslim rulers." |
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"By charting the similarities and differences of the trajectories followed by leading groups within the region as they responded to the colonial presence, Robinson provides an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power, the concepts of civil society and hegemony, and the transferability of symbolic, economic, and social capital."--Jacket. |
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Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- To 1884.
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Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- 1884-1960.
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Muslims -- Africa, French-speaking West -- History.
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Sufism -- Africa, French-speaking West -- History.
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France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History.
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Sufism. (OCoLC)fst01137257
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French colonies. (OCoLC)fst01930852
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Muslims. (OCoLC)fst01031029
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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French-speaking Western Africa. (OCoLC)fst01692605
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| Chronological Term |
To 1960
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0821413538 (alk. paper) |
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9780821413531 (alk. paper) |
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0821413546 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780821413548 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0852554575 (James Currey, paper) |
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9780852554579 (James Currey, paper) |
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0852554583 (James Currey, cloth) |
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9780852554586 (James Currey, cloth) |
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