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Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920
Contributor(s): Robinson, David (Author)
ISBN: 0821413538     ISBN-13: 9780821413531
Publisher: Ohio University Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2000
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - General
- Religion | Islam - General
- History | World - General
Dewey: 966.101
LCCN: 00044614
Series: Western African Studies (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.4" W x 9.59" (1.86 lbs) 377 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - West Africa
 
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Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation, David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the Federation of French West Africa in order to preserve autonomy within the religious, social, and economic realms while abandoning the political sphere to their non-Muslim rulers.

This was a striking development because the local inhabitants had a strong sense of belonging to the Dar al-Islam, the "world of Islam" in which Muslims ruled themselves.

Drawing from a wide variety of archival, oral, and Arabic sources, Robinson describes the important roles played by Muslim merchants and the mulatto community of St. Louis, Senegal. He also examines the impact of the electoral institutions established by the Third Republic, and the French effort to develop a reputation as a "Muslim power"--a European imperial nation with a capacity for ruling over Islamic subjects.

By charting the similarities and differences of the trajectories followed by leading groups within the region as they responded to the colonial regimes, Robinson provides an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power, the concepts of civil society and hegemony, and the transferability of symbolic, economic, and social capital.