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This study seeks to offer new insights into the role of Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. It is a study of leadeship and organization in African Islam over the last 200 years, and the part played by the miraculous in the achievement and exercise of power. The book is a product of a four-year Franco-British collaborative research project, "Islam, Society and the State in Black Africa", jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. It is intended to be one of two volumes, the second is to be in French, "Les Communautes Musulmanes et l'Etat en Afrique Noire". The contributors draw on sources which date back to the 17th century, and which cover an area from East Africa to Senegal and the Seine, with which they seek to explain the phenomenon in terms of social environment, and a hagiographical tradition. themes covered include the knowingly undertaken charismatic career, the role of women in the Sufi brotherhood, the importance of Islamic magical medicine in modern African politics and the emergence of the Sufi brotherhood as a mass organization of mysticism, which now finds itself operating in the often hostile environment of the independent African state.
Contents
Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Introduction; Louis Brenner: Concepts of Tariqa in West Africa: The case of the Qadiriyya; Jean-Louis Triaud: Khalwa and the career of sainthood: An interpretative essay; Francois Constantin: Charisma and the crisis of power in East Africa; Rene Otayek: Muslim charisma in Burkina Faso; Christian Coulon: Women, Islam, and Baraka; Donal B. Cruise O'Brien: Charisma comes to town: Mouride urbanization 1945-1986; Peter B. Clarke: Charismatic authority and the creation of a new order: The case of the Mahdiyyat movement in South-Western Nigeria; Glossary
