The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Islamization in Senegambia through the processes of intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd. Due to its geographic location at the point where Senega...

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description Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Islamization in Senegambia through the processes of intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd. Due to its geographic location at the point where Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau meet, the Middle Casamance has historically been a melting pot where centralized and decentralized societies have coexisted for generations. In the past, historians have failed to consider the contributions of the Middle Casamance region and Mandinka Muslim settlements to the development of Islam, despite centers for Islamic education having existed in the region centuries before the emergence of the Sufi and jihãd movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Aly Dramé seeks to close this gap by conceptualizing the leading role played by these Mandinka settlements and how religious spaces are negotiated, acquired, and transformed through intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd when peoples from distinct backgrounds encounter one another. Drawing on archival documents, oral history and traditions, travelers’ accounts, the Arabic text Pakao al-Qurano (Holy Book of Pakao), and original ethnography, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal demonstrates how these communities reframe the debates about the institutionalization of Islam in Senegambia geographically, chronologically, and thematically.
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Conversion to Islam
Interfaith marriage
Intermarriage
British
French
Senegal
Ndiama
Islamization
Soungrougrou River
Taabo tree
Casamance
Karantaba
Darsilamé
Portuguese
Casamance River
Guinea-Bissau
Diola
Dianaba
Senegambia
Balante
The Gambia
Jihãd
Qur’anic education
Bainounk
Fodé Héraba Dramé
Merchant-scholars
Mandinka
French colonial rule
Fort of Sédhiou
Souna
Birassou
Boudhié
Mandinkization
Balmadou
Sonkoundou
Pakao
Yacine
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Dramé, Aly
The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title_full The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title_fullStr The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title_full_unstemmed The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title_short The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
title_sort institutionalization of islam in southern senegal
topic Islam
Conversion to Islam
Interfaith marriage
Intermarriage
British
French
Senegal
Ndiama
Islamization
Soungrougrou River
Taabo tree
Casamance
Karantaba
Darsilamé
Portuguese
Casamance River
Guinea-Bissau
Diola
Dianaba
Senegambia
Balante
The Gambia
Jihãd
Qur’anic education
Bainounk
Fodé Héraba Dramé
Merchant-scholars
Mandinka
French colonial rule
Fort of Sédhiou
Souna
Birassou
Boudhié
Mandinkization
Balmadou
Sonkoundou
Pakao
Yacine
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Conversion to Islam
Interfaith marriage
Intermarriage
British
French
Senegal
Ndiama
Islamization
Soungrougrou River
Taabo tree
Casamance
Karantaba
Darsilamé
Portuguese
Casamance River
Guinea-Bissau
Diola
Dianaba
Senegambia
Balante
The Gambia
Jihãd
Qur’anic education
Bainounk
Fodé Héraba Dramé
Merchant-scholars
Mandinka
French colonial rule
Fort of Sédhiou
Souna
Birassou
Boudhié
Mandinkization
Balmadou
Sonkoundou
Pakao
Yacine
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