essay
The Shaykh's men: religion and power in Senegambian Islam
Rural and urban Islam in West Africa • Boulder, Colo. • Published In 1987 • Pages: 55-65
By: Colvin, Lucie Gallistel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work presents an analysis of '…the political-economic culture of Senegambian societies, showing that certain of its features made familiar Islamic concepts and doctrines susceptible to unique interpretations' (p. 55). Societies of the Senegambian region, although this applies equally to most African Muslim societies, were generally characterized by markedly different political cultures in which authority was hierarchial and personalized and occupationally defined groups formed subcommunities. In this study emphasis in placed on the rural and historical patterns of authority.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Ethnic stratification
- Castes
- Slavery
- Household
- Chief executive
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- fifteenth - nineteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Senegambian region
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lucie G. Colvin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87004712
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wolof (African people)