Living Knowledge in West African Islam : The Sufi Community of Ibrāhīm Niasse.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Note on Orthography -- Figure 1 Senegambia in the 19th and early 20th centuries -- Figure 2 Medina-Baye and the City of Kaolack -- Figure 3 Clerical Lineages in West Africa: The Niasse and the Cissé -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Theoretical Considerations -- Macrohistory -- Habitus -- Embodiment and Subjectivity -- Literature Review -- Narrative Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 Clerical Communities in West African History -- Enduring Learning Practices -- Islamic Jurisprudence of the Mālikī School -- Qurʾān Learning -- Esoteric Sciences -- Sufism -- Muslim Scholars in West African Social History -- The Jihad of Ma Ba Diakhou -- The Social Appeal of the New Marabout Communities -- Chapter 2 A New Senegambian Clerical Community -- The Niassène: Social and Intellectual Background -- Ibrāhīm Niasse and the "Community of the Flood" -- Chapter 3 Honored Disciples: The Cissé of the Saloum -- ʿAbdallāh Niasse and the Cissé of Diossong -- ʿAlī Cissé and Paradigmatic Discipleship -- Chapter 4 Knowing God -- On Spiritual Training -- Being Filled with God -- The Prophet Muḥammad, Mirror of God -- Aḥmad al-Tijānī and Divine Cognizance -- Chapter 5 Understanding Sufi Discipleship -- Assuring the Aspirants -- Conduct of the Disciple -- Qualities of the Spiritual Guide -- Disciple Perspectives -- Chapter 6 The Adaptation of Traditional Learning Practices -- Maintaining the Sanad Tradition -- Adopting the Madrasa -- Maintaining the Learning Circles -- Strategies of Structural Adaptation -- Chapter 7 Cognizance and the Revival of the Islamic Sciences -- Qurʾān Learning and Knowing God -- Sufism and Mālikī Jurisprudence in Medina-Baye -- The Esoteric Sciences and Shaykh-Disciple Relations -- Divine Cognizance and the Sufi Orders in West Africa.

Chapter 8 Islam and African Decolonization: Community Solidarities and Distinctions -- Islam and African Liberation -- Islam and the Postcolonial Nation-State -- Pan-Africanism -- A Vision of Global Islamic Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and Sources -- Index.

Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the Muslim community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975, Senegal). The realization of Islam was achieved through the enduring West African practice of learning in the physical presence of exemplary masters.

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