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Islam and the state of Kajoor: a case of successful resistance to jihad
Journal of African history • 15 (4) • Published In 1974 • Pages: 587-606
By: Colvin, Lucie Gallistel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an historical study of the three unsuccessful clerical revolts or JIHADS against the Wolof state of Kajoor (Kayor) during the period of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. These JIHADS are described as revival and reform movements among a people who almost universally professed a belief in Islam, but practiced a syncretistic form thereof. Colvin notes that the traditional view that these were '…wars between 'Pagans' and 'Muslims' is seen as a reflection of the social and political isolation of the clerics as a community, an understandable but on closer examination misleading interpretation based on uncritical reading of clerical sources' (p. 606).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Classes
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Revolution
- Prophets and ascetics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Wolof
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- eleventh-nineteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kajoor (Kayor) region, Senegal
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lucie Gallistel Colvin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63005723
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)