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RENAULT, François, Cardinal Lavigerie: Churchman, Prophet and Missionary, translated by John O'Donohue, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press, 1994, 470 pp., £32, 0 485 11453 4

RENAULT, François, Cardinal Lavigerie: Churchman, Prophet and Missionary, translated by John... 96 housed in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and those in the Dakar archives. The book reproduces in photographic form some of the key French and Arabic documents, and in the bibliography references the relevant sources. With materials such as these the historian of Muslim Africa can begin to enter seriously into a coherent, systematic inter- pretation of religious and social change. To help deepen such inter- pretation scholars would need to draw on the kind of materials now being vigorously assembled on oral traditions whose value can be in offering a non-Muslim point of view. With specific reference to the Segou of al-Hajj 'Umar and al-Madani, we have the Bambara, non- Muslim point of view preserved in the epic account of a local griot, Tayiru Banbera, collected and edited by David Conrad (A State of Intriaue, Oxford University Press). Actions that the jihadists undertook with the approval of their conscience are decried in the oral epic as immoral and destructive. Indeed, another line is drawn that shifts the moral bur- den to the new religious masters and attributes all virtue and rectitude to the non-Muslim side. For the grist, even Muslim griot, Islam has complicated life enormously http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

RENAULT, François, Cardinal Lavigerie: Churchman, Prophet and Missionary, translated by John O'Donohue, London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press, 1994, 470 pp., £32, 0 485 11453 4

Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 26 (1): 96 – Jan 1, 1996

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Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
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1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006696X00442
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96 housed in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and those in the Dakar archives. The book reproduces in photographic form some of the key French and Arabic documents, and in the bibliography references the relevant sources. With materials such as these the historian of Muslim Africa can begin to enter seriously into a coherent, systematic inter- pretation of religious and social change. To help deepen such inter- pretation scholars would need to draw on the kind of materials now being vigorously assembled on oral traditions whose value can be in offering a non-Muslim point of view. With specific reference to the Segou of al-Hajj 'Umar and al-Madani, we have the Bambara, non- Muslim point of view preserved in the epic account of a local griot, Tayiru Banbera, collected and edited by David Conrad (A State of Intriaue, Oxford University Press). Actions that the jihadists undertook with the approval of their conscience are decried in the oral epic as immoral and destructive. Indeed, another line is drawn that shifts the moral bur- den to the new religious masters and attributes all virtue and rectitude to the non-Muslim side. For the grist, even Muslim griot, Islam has complicated life enormously

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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