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Title: | Muslim brotherhoods in nineteenth-century Africa |
Author: | Martin, B.G. |
Year: | 1976 |
Issue: | 18 |
Pages: | 267 |
Language: | English |
Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
City of publisher: | Cambridge |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
ISBN: | 0521210623 |
Geographic terms: | Northern Africa West Africa |
Subject: | Muslim brotherhoods |
Abstract: | The mystical and hierarchically organized brotherhoods, the Sufi proliferated by the end of the 18th century in a religious revival, challinging the steady growth of European Imperialism. Professor Martin considers the social and political aspects of this revival in Muslim Africa. He focuses on eight Sufi brotherhoods and their leaders: a pair of militant resisters and ideologues; five moderates who taught mysticism, carried on jihads, or instituted social reforms; and one conservative Sufi leader very little affected by the changing world of the nineteenth century. |