In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious
organization, including among its numbers the nation's president. Yet little is known of this …

As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from French colonial rule,
academic and policy circles are engaged in a vigorous debate about its experience in nation …

Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's
movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order …

Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba is a geographical study of the modern
Muslim holy city of Touba in Senegal, capital of the Mouride Sufi order. Touba was founded …

Examines through the use of Murid oral and written sources the creation of an" alternative
modernity" as an understanding of historical change by Sufi notables and disciples. The …

In studies concerning Islam and gender in West Africa, the expertise of women in Islamic
esoteric practices is often overlooked. These practices, that include divination, dream …

La question musulmane dans la société sénégalaise fait l'objet d'une longue tradition
d'intérêt et de production scientifique. Elle reste toute-fois largement dominée par un vieux …

Page 1 Islam in Africa Volume 13 Cleo Cantone Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal
BRILL Page 2 Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal Page 3 Islam in Africa Brill’s Islam …

This collection of seven essays offers wide-ranging and in-depth studies of locations sacred
to Muslims, of the histories of these sites (real or imagined), and of the ways in which …

Research on the urban grid plan in colonial contexts tends to analyse the grid as an
occidental top-down phenomenon that was inscribed on a spatial tabula rasa of indigenous …