Across a great divide [[electronic resource] ] : continuity and change in native North American societies, 1400-1900 / / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781622903321
• Autore: Tregonning K. G
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-299-19152-5; 0-8165-0228-5
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 342 p. : ill., maps
• Collana: Amerind studies in archaeology ; ; 4
• Altri autori (Persone): ScheiberLaura L; MitchellMark D
• Disciplina: 305.897
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Social conditions; Indians of North America - Colonization - Social aspects; Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation; Social archaeology - North America; Social change - North America; North America Colonization Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Crossing divides : archaeology as long-term history / Mark D. Mitchell and Laura L. Scheiber -- Agency and practice in Apalachee Province / John F. Scarry -- Long-term history, positionality, contingency, hybridity : does rethinking indigenous history reframe the Jamestown colony? / Jeffrey L. Hantman -- When moral economies and capitalism meet : Creek factionalism and the colonial southeastern frontier / Cameron B. Wesson -- Not just "one site against the world" : Seneca Iroquois intercommunity connections and autonomy, 1550-1779 / Kurt A. Jordan -- A prophet has arisen : the archaeology of nativism among the nineteenth-century Algonquin peoples of Illinois / Mark J. Wagner -- Mountain Shoshone technological transitions across the great divide / Laura L. Scheiber and Judson Byrd Finley -- The plains hide trade : French impact on Wichita technology and society / Susan C. Vehik ... [et al.] -- "Like butterflies on a mounting board" : Pueblo mobility and demography before 1825 / Jeremy Kulisheck -- The Dine at the edge ; of history : Navajo ethnogenesis in the northern Southwest, 1500-1750 / Richard H. Wilshusen -- A cross-cultural study of colonialism and indigenous foodways in western North America / Anthony P. Graesch, Julienne Bernard, and Anna C. Noah -- Identity collectives and religious colonialism in coastal western Alaska / Liam Frink -- Crossing, bridging, and transgressing divides in the study of native North America / Stephen W. Silliman.

Living knowledge in West African Islam : the Sufi community of Ibrahim Niasse / / by Zachary Valentine Wright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826490703321
• Autore: Wright Zachary Valentine
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-28946-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Collana: Islam in Africa, , 1570-3754 ; ; Volume 18
• Disciplina: 297.4/8
• Soggetti: Sufism - Africa, West - History; Tijānīyah - Africa, West - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Clerical Communities in West African History -- 2 A New Senegambian Clerical Community -- 3 Honored Disciples: The Cissé of the Saloum -- 4 Knowing God -- 5 Understanding Sufi Discipleship -- 6 The Adaptation of Traditional Learning Practices -- 7 Cognizance and the Revival of the Islamic Sciences -- 8 Islam and African Decolonization: Community Solidarities and Distinctions -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and Sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Living Knowledge in West African Islam examines the actualization of religious identity in the community of Ibrāhīm Niasse (d.1975, Senegal). With millions of followers throughout Africa and the world, the community arguably represents one of the twentieth century’s most successful Islamic revivals. Niasse’s followers, members of the Tijāniyya Sufi order, gave particular attention to the widespread transmission of the experiential knowledge (maʿrifa) of God. They also worked to ; articulate a global Islamic identity in the crucible of African decolonization. The central argument of this book is that West African Sufism is legible only with an appreciation of centuries of Islamic knowledge specialization in the region. Sufi masters and disciples reenacted and deepened preexisting teacher-student relationships surrounding the learning of core Islamic disciplines, such as the Qurʾān and jurisprudence. Learning Islam meant the transformative inscription of sacred knowledge in the student’s very being, a disposition acquired in the master’s exemplary physical presence. Sufism did not undermine traditional Islamic orthodoxy: the continued transmission of Sufi knowledge has in fact preserved and revived traditional Islamic learning in West Africa.