Medina Gounass

Gina Gertrud Smith is an associate researcher at the at Centre of African Studies and the Centre of European Islamic Thinking, University of Copenhagen. In this book she presents a Toucouleur and Peul (Fulani) society in Casamance, part of the Sufi brotherhood Tijaniyya. She describes the foundations of the society in the special charisma or baraka of the shaykh, his Islamic knowledge, and the Islamic educational system. She also debates how the system is being challenged by the secular Senegalese state and Islamism.

Author: Gina Gertrud Smith

Publisher: Books on Demand

Publication Date: Jan 08, 2009

Number of Pages: 98 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 8776913538

ISBN-13: 9788776913533