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Women and Islamic revival in a West African town

Adeline Marie Masquelier
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxv)
  • 1. Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi (page 1)
  • 2. "Those Who Pray": Religious Transformations in the Colonial and Early Postcolonial Period (page 36)
  • 3. Debating Muslims, Disputed Practices: The New Public Face of Islam (page 66)
  • 4. When Charisma Comes to Town: Malam Awal or the Making of a Modern Saint (page 112)
  • 5. Building a Mosque in the Home of a Spirit: Changing Topographies of Power and Piety (page 146)
  • 6. How Is a Girl to Marry without a Bed? Weddings, Wealth, and Women's Value (page 175)
  • 7. Fashioning Muslimhood: Dress, Modesty, and the Construction of the Virtuous Woman (page 206)
  • 8. "The Fart Does Not Light the Fire": "Bad" Women, "True" Believers, and the Reconfiguration of Moral Domesticity (page 242)
  • Closing Remarks (page 275)
  • Glossary (page 281)
  • Notes (page 285)
  • Bibliography (page 313)
  • Index (page 333)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AE 38.2 (May 2010): 384-385 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41241968
AANTH 112.4 (Dec. 2010): 675-676 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40931277
AFSR 53.3 (Dec. 2010): 156-157 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40930977
ISLA 2.2 (Winter 2011): 123-127 http://www.jstor.org/stable/42637219
JRelA 40.4 (2010): 475-477 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25801393
JRAI 17.3 (Sep. 2011): 665-666 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23011351
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780253353665 (hardcover)
  • 9780253215130 (paper)
  • 9780253003461 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • African
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