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Download or read book THE MARABOUT written by Elizabeth Evans and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New religions take hold through conquest, missionary effort and forced conversion but most effective is conversion through love and respect. The Marabout is about a young man, Dawud, who is determined to fully convert to Islam the king of the 13th Century Mandinkan empire of Mali. Abandoning his family's tradition of service to Islam as marabouts in his home town of Audaghost, Dawud leaves his home and family to journey to Niani, the capital city of the Mandinkan Empire. The clash of the empire's traditional religions and Islam leads to murder and attempted murder thrusting Dawud into a precarious existence in Niani until he meets a princess who follows the traditional religion. And as is often said, the rest is history.
Book Synopsis In the City of the Marabouts by : Geert Mommersteeg
Download or read book In the City of the Marabouts written by Geert Mommersteeg and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2011-09-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening pages, amidst the throes of Ramadan during the hottest and driest season in Mali, Dutch ethnographer Geert Mommersteeg welcomes readers into the religious culture of a historic city uniquely filled with Islamic scholars known as marabouts. This finely crafted English-language translation provides a remarkable contribution to the study of Islamic practices and beliefs observed in local contexts in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the interrelationship between public and secret knowledge of maraboutage in everyday reality. This inviting personal narrative of an anthropologist's long-term fieldwork in Djennfor centuries a center of West African culture, scholarship, and architectureis full of valuable methodological insights. Mommersteeg, with unassuming honesty, becomes absorbed in the knowledge of the Holy Word and slowly enters the closed world of religious practice in which marabouts serve as intermediaries between God and their clients. While marabouts do not claim to be all-knowing, they do know how God can be addressed most effectively, which amulets are the most powerful, and which alms are best for nudging the future in the right direction.
Book Synopsis Marabout Women in Dakar by : Amber B. Gemmeke
Download or read book Marabout Women in Dakar written by Amber B. Gemmeke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich ethnographic study explores the life and work of successful marabout women in Dakar. It is set against the background of their private family lives, of developments in Senegalese society, and of global changes. While including female experts in spirit possession and plant-based healing, it also gives a rare insight in the work of women who offer Islamic knowledge such as Arabic astrology, numerology, divination and prayer sessions. With the analysis of marabout women's work this study sheds light on the ways in which women's authority in esoteric knowledge is negotiated, legitimated, and publicly recognised in Dakar. The study focuses especially upon marabout women's strategies to gain their clients' trust. Reference to rural areas is a significant element in this process. This study thus contributes to an understanding of the gendered way in which trust and scepticism are related to marabouts' work and of the role of a connection between Dakar and the rural areas therein.
Book Synopsis The Marabout and the Muse by : Kenneth W. Harrow
Download or read book The Marabout and the Muse written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the vitality of certain African literary traditions that have a common sense of belonging to the world of Islam.
Book Synopsis The Marabout's Secret by : Rob Stermscheg
Download or read book The Marabout's Secret written by Rob Stermscheg and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marabout, Hajji Omanah, is dying. Known throughout the vast deserts of Africa as a hermit and devout follower of Islam, Omanah has been keeping a terrible secret, one that has been plaguing him for years. On his deathbed, he plans to reveal it... to his son. What his son doesn't realize is that he's soon to be caught up in the middle of a vicious feud going back over a generation between two powerful European families. Forced to leave France in disgrace, the embittered Albin Richemonte is determined to avenge himself on Hugo von Lowenklau and his entire household. Desperate to escape desert exile, Richemonte concocts a brilliant scheme to cheat the marabout's son of his rightful inheritance, and by doing so rob the Lowenklau's of theirs as well. In the meantime, rumours of war between France and Germany abound, leading the Prussian High Command to send Hugo's grandson Richard on a dangerous mission into the heart of the enemy. There, he will find himself face to face with his grandfather's greatest nemesis.
Book Synopsis Marabout Women in Dakar by : Amber B. Gemmeke
Download or read book Marabout Women in Dakar written by Amber B. Gemmeke and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora by : Dr Afe Adogame
Download or read book The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora written by Dr Afe Adogame and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence, their belief systems and ritual practices. The book offers new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers and media practitioners alike.
Book Synopsis Marabou Stork Nightmares by : Irvine Welsh
Download or read book Marabou Stork Nightmares written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While lying in a coma in an Edinburgh hospital, Roy Strang experiences strange hallucinatory adventures that recount how he came to be in his current state, from his struggles with his disturbed family to a bizarre quest in Africa.
Book Synopsis The Best of Anthropology Today by : Jonathan Benthall
Download or read book The Best of Anthropology Today written by Jonathan Benthall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of articles published in the journal "Anthropology today" between 1972 and 2000.
Book Synopsis No Heaven for Good Boys by : Keisha Bush
Download or read book No Heaven for Good Boys written by Keisha Bush and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. “I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason.”—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah’s parents imagine, the young boys, called Talibé, are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teacher’s pockets. To make it back home, Étienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders, rival packs of Talibé, and mounting student protest on the streets. Drawn from real incidents and transporting readers between rural and urban Senegal, No Heaven for Good Boys is a tale of hope, resilience, and the affirming power of love.
Book Synopsis Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by : Ouida
Download or read book Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories written by Ouida and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Occult Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harper's Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Land of Mosques and Marabouts by : Ermengarda Greville- Nugent
Download or read book A Land of Mosques and Marabouts written by Ermengarda Greville- Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells about the author's travels in Algeria and Tunisia in late 19th century.
Book Synopsis The Marabout and the Muse by : Kenneth W. Harrow
Download or read book The Marabout and the Muse written by Kenneth W. Harrow and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the vitality of certain African literary traditions that have a common sense of belonging to the world of Islam.
Book Synopsis Brokering Democracy in Africa by : L. Beck
Download or read book Brokering Democracy in Africa written by L. Beck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the achievements and limitations of democratization in Senegal - and Africa more broadly - as a result of the continuing political culture of clientelism.
Book Synopsis Land, Law and Politics in Africa by : Jan Abbink
Download or read book Land, Law and Politics in Africa written by Jan Abbink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of new studies on the dynamics of political and legal culture as well as of conflict management in contemporary Africa, taking inspiration from and honoring the scholarly contributions and impact of Prof. Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009) in African Studies.
