Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal

Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman.

Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Musli...

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Main Author: Leichtman, Mara (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2015.
Series:Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Subjects:
Shīʿah > Senegal.
Shiites > Senegal.
Lebanese > Senegal > Religion.
Conversion > Shīʻah.
Shīʻah > Relations > Sunnites.
Sunnites > Relations > Shīʻah.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Emigration and immigration
Interfaith relations
Shīʻah
Shiites
Sunnites
Lebanon > Emigration and immigration.
Lebanon
Senegal
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