| Abstract: | In this paper the author seeks to show how within the broadly integral Muslim culture area of the Somali of North-East Africa salient differences in traditional social organization are reflected in correspondingly different patterns of Islamic assimilation. The variations in this common culture area are those which distinguish the pattern of life and social system of the northern nomadic Somali from those of their southern and part-cultivating kinsmen. These differences are accompanied by and intimately connected with corresponding variations in Muslim religious organization, 1. Introduction, 2. The geographical and historical setting, 3. Northern Somali social structure, 4. Southern Somali social structure, 5. Cultic variations. References; notes; French summary p. 265-267. |
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