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9780199351619
Book Title
Beyond Jihad : the Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam
Item Length
6.1 in
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year
2016
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
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Yes
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
Lamin Sanneh
Genre
Religion, History, Political Science
Topic
Islam / History, Africa / General, Peace, Islam / General, Religion, Politics & State
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9.3 in
Item Weight
24 Oz
Number of Pages
372 Pages

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Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

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Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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0199351619
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9780199351619
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Book Title
Beyond Jihad : the Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam
Author
Lamin Sanneh
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Islam / History, Africa / General, Peace, Islam / General, Religion, Politics & State
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
372 Pages

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6.1 in
Item Height
1.3 in
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9.3 in
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"[T]he level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history Highly recommended."--CHOICE "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam's peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida "The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history . Highly Recommended." --CHOICE, "Scholarly discussions of the history of Islam in West Africa, from its medieval origins to the latest contemporary developments, are riddled with accounts of jihad. Sanneh authoritatively argues that such depictions are misleading at best, flatly erroneous at worst. Focus on armed struggle has directed attention away from an enduring tradition he labels ''pacifist,'' and which has characterized much of Islam in West Africa from its earliest introduction down to the present day."--The International Journal of African Historical Studies "[T]he level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history Highly recommended."--CHOICE "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na''im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam''s peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida "Beyond Jihad embodies a lifetime of research and fieldwork gathering both oral and written primary sources. The book explores the spread and growth of Islam in sub-Sahara Africa. Sanneh argues that understanding the development and spread of the Sufi clerical movement, starting in the Mali Empire and spreading into modern-day Guinea and Senegambia, throws light on the growth of Islam in the region...The book also contains extensive endnotes, a scholarly bibliography and an index which scholars and students will find especially useful."--Mission Studies, "[T]he level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history Highly recommended."--CHOICE "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam's peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida, "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam's peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida, "Scholarly discussions of the history of Islam in West Africa, from its medieval origins to the latest contemporary developments, are riddled with accounts of jihad. Sanneh authoritatively argues that such depictions are misleading at best, flatly erroneous at worst. Focus on armed struggle has directed attention away from an enduring tradition he labels ''pacifist,'' and which has characterized much of Islam in West Africa from its earliest introduction down to the present day."--The International Journal of African Historical Studies "[T]he level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history...Highly recommended."--CHOICE "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na''im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam''s peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida "Beyond Jihad embodies a lifetime of research and fieldwork gathering both oral and written primary sources. The book explores the spread and growth of Islam in sub-Sahara Africa. Sanneh argues that understanding the development and spread of the Sufi clerical movement, starting in the Mali Empire and spreading into modern-day Guinea and Senegambia, throws light on the growth of Islam in the region...The book also contains extensive endnotes, a scholarly bibliography and an index which scholars and students will find especially useful."--Mission Studies, "[T]he level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history Highly recommended."--CHOICE "Sanneh makes a persuasive argument that the growth of West African Islam has been, and continues to be, primarily pacific rather than coercive. The level of scholarship, critical use of historical and religious source material, and insightful interdisciplinary approach make this book not only a good read but an outstanding contribution to Islamic, West African, and comparative religious history."-CHOICE "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam's peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. Villaln, Professor and Dean, University of Florida "Beyond Jihad embodies a lifetime of research and fieldwork gathering both oral and written primary sources. The book explores the spread and growth of Islam in sub-Sahara Africa. Sanneh argues that understanding the development and spread of the Sufi clerical movement, starting in the Mali Empire and spreading into modern-day Guinea and Senegambia, throws light on the growth of Islam in the region...The book also contains extensive endnotes, a scholarly bibliography and an index which scholars and students will find especially useful."--Mission Studies, "Beyond Jihad is a grand narrative of the pacifist practice of inter-generational peaceful conversion and assimilation of Islam in West Africa, masterfully told by a multilingual, intellectually honest, and scholarly rigorous native son. The unique combination of down-to-earth yet sophisticated analysis by a compassionate yet impartial narrator is to be savored in multiple readings. With its expansive and comprehensive yet integrated span of religious traditions and their rejuvenation, commerce and travel, politics and anthropology, identity formation and transformation in the ancient and recent past to the future, this book is highly instructive for undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers in a range of fields and disciplines."-Abdullahi An-Na'im, Emory Law School, author of What is an American Muslim? and Islam and the Secular State "This important study of Islam's peaceful development in the history of West Africa comes as a vital antidote to the scholarly overemphasis on jihad and syncretism as its defining characteristics. Drawing upon his considerable erudition and lifelong engagement with the region, Sanneh reconstructs the everyday practices of Islamic clerical work in teaching, worship, devotion, and pastoral care, showing how these fixed the habits of Muslims, most of whom never saw jihad. At a time when our media is dominated by images of religious extremism this timely book reminds us that Islam was established in West Africa not by force but though peaceful, gradual means in the hands of traders and clerics."-David Maxwell, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College "Beyond Jihad offers a welcome and much-needed alternative to much of the current alarmist discourse about religious extremism and violence in West African Islam. A distinguished scholar of West African religious practice, Lamin Sanneh offers a historically grounded and finely nuanced account of the much deeper and more significant tradition of tolerance and openness that has characterized Muslim religious practice in the region."-Leonardo A. VillalĆ³n, Professor and Dean, University of Florida
Table of Content
Author's Note Acknowledgments Introduction: Issues and Directions Part One: Historical Genesis Chapter 1: Beyond North Africa: Transmission and Synthesis Chapter 2: Beyond the Veil: Almoravids and Ghana Chapter 3: Beyond Desert Trails: Mobility and Settlement Chapter 4: Beyond Routes and Kingdoms: New Frontiers, Old Heartlands Part Two: Clerical Emergence Chapter 5: Beyond Trade and Markets: Community and Vocation Chapter 6: Beyond Homeland: Religious Formation and Expansion Chapter 7: Beyond Tribe and Tongue in Futa Jallon: Religion and Ethnicity Chapter 8: Beyond Consolidation: Rejuvenating the Heritage Chapter 9: Beyond Confrontation: Crisis and Denouement Chapter 10: Beyond Confinement: Mobile Cells and the Clerical Web Chapter 11: Beyond Consensus: A House Divided Part Three: Wider Horizons Chapter 12: Beyond Jihad: Champions and Opponents Chapter 13: Beyond Politics: Comparative Perspectives Chapter 14: End of Jihad?: Tradition and Continuity Bibliography Timeline Glossary Index
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2016
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2015-048981

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