Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

Autor:	John Azumah
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	West african Kingdom History Religious studies Islam Colonialism West africa
Zdroj:	International Bulletin of Mission Research. 41:363-369
ISSN:	2396-9407 2396-9393
DOI:	10.1177/2396939317720379
Popis:	Lamin Sanneh’s book Beyond Jihad deals with the peaceful transmission of Islam in West Africa by a pacifist clerical group. The author challenges the claim that the old African kingdom of Ghana was conquered by the militant Berber Almoravids in the eleventh century. Islam was not introduced into sub-Saharan Africa through militant jihad, as generally believed. The principal agents for the dissemination of Islam in West Africa were local clerics, who used the peaceful means of accommodation and adaptation. The clerical tradition was pacifist, emphasizing learning and teaching, not war and political office.
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