This article explores the sonic sacralization of urban space in the multicultural city of Accra.
In Ghanaian cities today religious groups increasingly vie for public presence. It is especially …

The Muslim holy city of Touba, self-defined 'capital'of the Murid Sufi order in Senegal, is
increasingly thriving on its global connectedness. This article situates the phenomenon of …

This chapter presents the indigenous Senegalese grid design tradition as it developed
throughout the pre-colonial and colonial eras. The grid plan is a ubiquitous urban design …

The historical autonomy of the religious community of Medina Gounass in Senegal
represents an alternative geographic territory to that of colonial and postcolonial states. The …

Based on the study of the holy city of Touba in Senegal, this chapter demonstrates how the
autonomous management of urbanisation by a religious institution can produce a city which …

Touba, in Senegal, is the equivalent to Mecca for Sufi Mouride Muslims, who embark on an
annual pilgrimage called Le Grand Magal to celebrate the founder of their faith, Cheikh …

The World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) is a not-for-profit organization working at
the intersection of religion and global development. Housed within the Berkley Center in …

In the last two centuries, Fula Muslim clerics played a huge role in changing the social and
religious landscape of the Senegambia region. Using a variety of archival and African oral …

Jálàbí, the Islamic petitionary prayer is deployed by Muslim clerics to render spiritual
services to individuals and groups in a manner that forges a transactional relationship …

This chapter explores the symbolic and political status of the towns and neighborhoods
established and managed by Senegal's contemporary Sufi orders (the Muridiyya, Tijaniyya …