Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir Hardcover - 2008
by Scott Reese
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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.
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- Title Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir
- Author Scott Reese
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2008-07
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9789004167292 / 9004167293
- Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
- Dimensions 9.7 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (24.64 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008008972
- Dewey Decimal Code 297.096
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