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100			_aSHAERY - EISENLOHR, Roschanack
245			_aThe Development of Wahhabi Reforms in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 1960–1990 _bElective Affinities between Western-Educated Muslims and Islamic Scholars
264			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2009
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337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aComparative Studies in Society and History _vVolume , number ,
520			_aThis essay examines the relationship between Western notions of modernity and Wahhabi-inclined Islamic reform in Ghana and Burkina Faso (Upper Volta until 1984) during the early decades of independence. I will highlight ways in which Western/secular education facilitated the early diffusion of this genre of reform. Over the past decade or so, historians have explored the extent to which the appeal of the Wahhabi movement in urban West Africa, toward the end of French and British colonialism, can be traced to Muslim attempts to find a middle ground between Western “modernity” and authentic spiritual purity. In what follows, I employ comparative, ethnographic, and historical analyses to draw attention to the pivotal roles Western-educated urban Muslim professionals played in the development of this reform. Despite the active participation of these professionals in transforming the Wahhabi message into urban mass movements, scholars have paid scant attention to the factors that drew them to the Wahhabi doctrine in the first instance.
650			_agenealogy
650			_atransnationalism
650			_ashiite politics
650			_aLebanon
856			_u https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417509000218
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