Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa

Practices, Trajectories and Influences

Abdoulaye Sounaye, André Chappatte, Abdoulaye Sounaye, André Chappatte

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9783110738124
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110733358
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology
• Index: Social Sciences

The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa – Practices, Trajectories and Influences
• The National Chief Imam of Ghana Intervention, Collaboration and Contestation
• The Modernity of Islam in Burkina Faso Contrasting Strategies in Two Emergent Movements
• The #ArewaMeToo Movement in Northern Nigeria A Collusion of Islam, Culture and Modernity
• Trajectoires radiophoniques de la modernité islamique au Nord-Cameroun (1958–2010)
• Flaming et pratiques d’irrévérence des « musulmans connectés » au Sénégal
• Les « imams chocos » ou la mutation de la figure de l’autorité religieuse musulmane en Côte d’Ivoire contemporaine
• Trajectories of Islamic Family Law in Accra A Perspective on a Malam
• The Projection of Saudi Arabian Influence in West Africa
• Turkey’s Religious Soft Power in Côte d’Ivoire Practices and Constraints in Muslim Communities
• List of Contributors
• Liste des contributeurs