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Author Ware, Rudolph T.

Title The walking Qurʼan : Islamic education, embodied knowledge, and history in West Africa / Rudolph T. Ware III
Published North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Islamic civilization & Muslim networks
Contents Introduction : Islam, the Qur'an school, and the Africans -- Education, embodiment, and epistemology -- Embodying Islam in West Africa : the making of a clerisy, ca. 1000-1770 -- The book in chains : slavery and revolution in Senegambia, 1770-1890 -- Bodies of knowledge : schooling, Sufism, and social change in colonial Senegal, 1890-1945 -- Disembodied knowledge? : "reform" and epistemology in Senegal, 1945-present -- Conclusion : The Qur'an school, the body, and the health of the Umma
Summary "Typesetter: code used below Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Quran schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge. Today, many Muslims and non-Muslims find West African methods of Quran schooling puzzling and controversial. In fascinating detail, Ware introduces these practices from the viewpoint of the practitioners, explicating their emphasis on educating the whole human being as if to remake it as a living replica of the Quran. From this perspective, the transference of knowledge in core texts and rituals is literally embodied in people, helping shape them--like the Prophet of Islam--into vital bearers of the word of God."-- Provided by publisher
"Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Ware documents the profound significance of Qurʼan schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Qurʼan -- Study and teaching -- Africa, West
Qurʼan fast
Koran gnd
Coran -- Étude et enseignement -- Afrique occidentale. ram
Subject Islamic religious education -- Africa, West
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Koran & Sacred Writings.
Islamic religious education
Education
Islam
Islamische Erziehung
Éducation religieuse islamique -- Afrique occidentale.
West Africa
Westafrika
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469614328
1469614324
9781469614335
1469614332