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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hill, Joseph (1974-....)
Titre(s) : Wrapping authority [Texte imprimé] : women Islamic leaders in a Sufi movement in Dakar, Senegal / Joseph Hill
Publication : Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto press, 2018
Description matérielle : xxv, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Collection : Anthropological horizons
Lien à la collection : Anthropological horizons
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index
"Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly
as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya
Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance
in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic
leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic
authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority
tells these women's stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that
feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions
of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular,
Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim
women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a
form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of
religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other
forms of feminine "self-wrapping" to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic
mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly
ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence
of gender through mystical unity with God."
Issued also in electronic format.
Sujet(s) : Musulmanes -- Dakar (Sénégal)
Soufisme -- Dakar (Sénégal)
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.486 97096 (23e éd.) = Femmes musulmanes - Afrique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781487503079. - ISBN 1487503075. - ISBN 9781487522445. - ISBN 1487522444 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45663771m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45663771
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)