'Being as good Muslims as Frenchmen': On Islam and colonial modernity in West Africa

Journal of Religion in Africa

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-120

  Seesemann, Rüdiger ^a   Soares, Benjamin F ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Afrika Studiecentrum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonialism; Islam; Modernity; Sufism; Tijaniyya; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 71049125190     PISSN: 00224200     EISSN: 15700666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157006609X409067     Document Type: Article

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