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This collection critically examines ?tolerance," ?secularism," and respect for religious ?diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and political processes and their reciprocal engagement with the state, Sunni reformist and radical groups, and non-religious organizations.Through a rich and nuanced historical ethnography of the formation of Senegalese democracy, this anthology illuminates the comp

Since independence, African scholars from different traditions (African, Islamic and Western), intellectuals, and politicians have been actively engaging with humanities and social sciences originating from the West and received through the conduit of colonial rule and imperial domination. Both the filiation and the packaging of the knowledge made it suspect and irrelevant to postcolonial societies. But until today the two axiomatic assumptions of knowledge production, policy-oriented/problem-solving research and/or academic research (reduced mainly to humanities), are being resolved at the expense of the latter, circumscribing the territory in which the debate is conducted. It focuses on the possibility (or not) of producing a vernacular conceptual framework, radically detached from the Western colonial social sciences and humanities and its revision by the inclusion of location, race, culture, identities, and alterity. South Africa, which has been inflicted by a vicious racial discrimination and economic exploitation, is leading the discussion, picking up the flag of the decolonization of knowledge.

This introduction provides the context within which the conversation about Rudolph Ware's book is conducted. It identifies the key issues The Walking Qur'an addresses as well as the epistemological ruptures indispensable, according to Ware, to reading the phenomenological manifestations of Islam in West Africa within the epistemologies of the global intellectual economies of Islam, the colonial library, and the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition.

Der Artikel beschreibt die Anpassung der islamischen Glaubensgemeinschaft der Muriden an einen globalen Markt, den sie sich im Eigeninteresse zunutze macht. Ein Netzwerk passt die traditionellen Glaubens- und Arbeitsmethoden den neuen Erfordernissen an. Es wird der Wandel dieser religiösen Bewegung geschildert. In der Kolonialzeit wuchs sie durch Aktivitäten in der Landwirtschaft, eroberte die Städte Senegals und schließlich die europäischen Metropolen durch Migranten. Der Zusammenhalt basiert auf dem gemeinsamen Glauben und einem inzwischen weltumspannenden Netzwerk. Dieses ermöglicht ökonomische Profite durch die Ausnutzung des liberalen Grundgedankens. Zentrum der Gemeinschaft ist Touba, das zur zweitgrößten Stadt Senegals wurde. (DÜI-Wgm)

Cet article retrace l'histoire de l'idée municipale au Sénégal en analysant la genèse des privilèges politiques attribués au Quatre Communes. Dans le contexte de « l'assimilation », il montre comment les « originaires » ont progressivement ouvert un espace pour l'affirmation d'une citoyenneté et d'une vie politique locale.