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The Sufi Muslim orders are the most significant institutions in Senegalese society. While Islamic political groups are often accused of destabilizing African states, Leonardo Villalón argues that these brotherhoods have played a crucial part in making Senegal one of the most stable and democratic of African countries. Focusing on a regional administrative center, he combines a detailed account of grassroots politics with an analysis of national and international political forces. This is a major study that should be read by every student of Islam and African politics.
Detailed fieldwork-based effort to specify precisely how social structures affect exercise of state power in an important African case
Case in which Islam has played a central political role, but departing from most depictions of politicized Islam as inherently destabilizing
A comparative description and analysis of Sufi orders in contemporary Senegal, from the local grassroots perspective
Première édition en 1995.
A partir de l'exemple d'une petite ville rurale, Fatick , capitale de région au coeur du bassin arachidier, qui présente la particularité de comprendre à la fois des représentants des principales ethnies du sénégal et des affiliés à toutes les confréries religieuses, Leonado Villalon va étudier le rôle joué par les confréries soufies dans la stabilité du système politique sénégalais mais aussi dans la faiblesse des représentations habituelles de la société civile (syndicats en particulier); cette dernière partie de l'analyse se trouvant aujourd'hui en partie contredite par la montée en puissance importante des ONG apparues dans les années FMI pour suppléer la disparition des services de l'Etat, en particulier à destination du monde rural.
Acknowledgments
A note on spelling
Glossary
Map of Senegal
Introduction: good Africans, good citizens, good Muslims
1. Islam in the politics of state-society relations
2. The structure of society: Fatick in the Senegalese context
3. The state-citizen relationship: struggle over bridges
4. The marabout-disciple relationship I: foundations of recruiting and following
5. The marabout-disciple relationship II: the structures of allegiance
6. The state-marabout relationship: collaboration, conflict and alternatives
7. Bureaucrats, marabouts and citizen-disciples: how precarious a balance?
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.