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Title:Fetishizing Religion: Allah Koura and French 'Islamic Policy' in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)
Author:Mann, GregoryISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:44
Issue:2
Period:July
Pages:263-282
Language:English
Geographic terms:Mali
France
Subjects:Islamic movements
colonization
religious policy
colonialism
History and Exploration
Religion and Witchcraft
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4100866
Abstract:This article argues that an innovative religious movement, known as Allah Koura, in postwar French Soudan (Mali) led some French administrators and military officers to adopt a new and more open stance towards local religious practices even as they fought hard to limit conversion to Islam and to counteract Muslim reform. Meanwhile, although the founder of the movement advocated submission to local authorities, young men claiming to be his messengers attacked elders and sorcerers. The article suggests that the religious sphere in the Western Sudan was broader than historians have recognized, and that religious identities were particularly important in the troubled transition from subjects to citizens. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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