Title Paths of accommodation : Muslim societies and French colonial authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920 / David Robinson

Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Western African studies Western African studies. Contents Space, time, and structure -- Sources, discourses, and mediators of knowledge -- Conquest and colonial rules -- France as a "Muslim power" -- Civil society: Saint-Louis in the French imperial sphere -- The sons of Ndar: the muslim merchants of Saint-Louis -- The obstacles to accommodation for the Umarians -- Saad Buh and the Fadiliyya way -- Sidyiyya Baba: co-architect of colonial Mauritania -- Malik Sy: teacher in the new colonial order -- Amadu Bamba: a complex path to accommodation Summary "Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation, David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the colonial authorities of French West Africa in order to preserve autonomy within the religious, social, and economic realms while abandoning the political sphere to their non-Muslim rulers." "By charting the similarities and differences of the trajectories followed by leading groups within the region as they responded to the colonial presence, Robinson provides an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power, the concepts of civil society and hegemony, and the transferability of symbolic, economic, and social capital."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-349) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Muslims -- Africa, French-speaking West -- History Muslims -- Africa, French-speaking West HISTORY. French colonies Muslims Kolonie Islam Islamieten. Islamitische economie. Koloniaal bestuur. SUBJECT Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- To 1884. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001625 Africa, French-speaking West -- History -- 1884-1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001626 France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History Subject Africa French-speaking Western Africa Mauretanien Frankreich Senegal Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0821440551 9780821440551

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