Renewers of the Age Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir 1st Edition by Scott Reese ISBN 004167293 9789004167292

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ISBN 10: 004167293

ISBN 13: 9789004167292

Author: Scott Reese 

Studies of nineteenth and twentieth century Islamic reform have tended to focus more on the evolution of ideas than how those ideas emerge from local contexts or are disseminated to a broad audience. Using the urban culture of southern Somalia, known as the Benaadir, this book explores the role of local EulamAE3/4 as popular intellectuals in the early colonial period. Drawing on locally compiled hagiographies, religious poetry and Sufi manuals, it examines the place of religious discourse as social discourse and how religious leaders sought to guide society through a time of troubles through calls to greater piety but also by exhorting believers to examine their lives in the hopes of bringing society into line with their image of a proper Islamic society.

Table of contents:

Chapter One Introduction: The Ulama’ as “local intellectuals”
Chapter Two Religious History as Social History
Chapter Three Saints, Scholars and the Acquisition of Discursive Authority
Chapter Four Urban Woes and Pious Remedies: Sufis, Urbanites, and Managing Social Crises in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Five When is Kafa’a Kifayah? Sufi Leadership, Religious Authority and Questions of Social Inequality….
Chapter Six The Best of Guides: Sufi Poetry, theological writing and Comprehending Qadiriyya popularity in the Early Twentieth Century

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