Islam and Social Change in French West Africa : History of an Emancipatory Community (Paperback)

Part I. 'The Suffering of our Father': Story and Context: 1. Sufism and status in the Western Sudan; 2. Making a revival: Yacouba Sylla and his followers; 3. Making a community: the 'Yacoubists' from 1930 to 2001; Part II. 'I Will Prove to You that What I Say Is True': Knowledge and Colonial Rule: 4. Ghosts and the grain of the archives; 5. History in the Zawiya: redemptive traditions; Part III. 'What Did He Give You?': Interpretation: 6. Lost origins: women and spiritual equality; 7. The spiritual economy of emancipation; 8. The gift of work: devotion, hierarchy, and labor; 9. 'To never shed blood': Yocouba, Houphouet, and Cote d'Ivoire.