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Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town

Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town 494 Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 49 (2009) 473-497 Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town . By Benjamin Soares. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / the University of Michigan Press, 2005 (International African Library; 32). xii + 306 pp., ISBN 0-7486-2358-2. e Malian town of Nioro is the home of two of the most important Islamic religious leaders of the country: Muhammadu Ould Shaykh Hamallah, son of Sheikh Hamallah who died in a concentration camp in Vichy France in 1943 but whom some of his followers still expect to return, and Cerno Hady Tall, a descendant of the jihad leader Umar Tall (d. 1864) and head of a local branch of the Tijaniyya. Both have come to enjoy an extraordinary influence and abundant wealth during the past half a century. In Islam and the Prayer Economy Soares explores the rise, mutual competition, and recent development of the two Sufi orders of Hamawiyya and Tijaniyya, their his- torical and contemporary leaders, and the wider development of Islam in Mali before and after the independence. In a thorough and meticulous manner he maps the development of Islamic practice and authority and the trajectories http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Die Welt des Islams Brill

Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town

Die Welt des Islams , Volume 49 (3-4): 2 – Jan 1, 2009

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0043-2539
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10.1163/157006008X313808
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494 Literatur/Book Reviews / Die Welt des Islams 49 (2009) 473-497 Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town . By Benjamin Soares. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / the University of Michigan Press, 2005 (International African Library; 32). xii + 306 pp., ISBN 0-7486-2358-2. e Malian town of Nioro is the home of two of the most important Islamic religious leaders of the country: Muhammadu Ould Shaykh Hamallah, son of Sheikh Hamallah who died in a concentration camp in Vichy France in 1943 but whom some of his followers still expect to return, and Cerno Hady Tall, a descendant of the jihad leader Umar Tall (d. 1864) and head of a local branch of the Tijaniyya. Both have come to enjoy an extraordinary influence and abundant wealth during the past half a century. In Islam and the Prayer Economy Soares explores the rise, mutual competition, and recent development of the two Sufi orders of Hamawiyya and Tijaniyya, their his- torical and contemporary leaders, and the wider development of Islam in Mali before and after the independence. In a thorough and meticulous manner he maps the development of Islamic practice and authority and the trajectories

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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