Islam and the Prayer Economy

History and Authority in a Malian Town

Benjamin F Soares author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:21st Jun '05

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At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and written sources, Soares provides a richly detailed discussion of Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in Mali and offers an original analytical perspective for understanding changes in the practice of Islam more generally.

ISBN: 9780748623587

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm

Weight: 584g

320 pages