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The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal
Aly Dramé
2025
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Weaving together oral and written sources, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal investigates previously overlooked dimensions of Islamization in Senegambia through the processes of intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd. Due to its geographic location at the point where Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau meet, the Middle Casamance has historically been a melting pot where centralized and decentralized societies have coexisted for generations. In the past, historians have failed to consider the contributions of the Middle Casamance region and Mandinka Muslim settlements to the development of Islam, despite centers for Islamic education having existed in the region centuries before the emergence of the Sufi and jihãd movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Aly Dramé seeks to close this gap by conceptualizing the leading role played by these Mandinka settlements and how religious spaces are negotiated, acquired, and transformed through intermarriage, Qur’anic education, and jihãd when peoples from distinct backgrounds encounter one another. Drawing on archival documents, oral history and traditions, travelers’ accounts, the Arabic text Pakao al-Qurano (Holy Book of Pakao), and original ethnography, The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal demonstrates how these communities reframe the debates about the institutionalization of Islam in Senegambia geographically, chronologically, and thematically.
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Keywords
- Bainounk
- Balante
- Balmadou
- Birassou
- Boudhié
- British
- Casamance
- Casamance River
- Conversion to Islam
- Darsilamé
- Dianaba
- Diola
- Fodé Héraba Dramé
- Fort of Sédhiou
- French
- French colonial rule
- Guinea-Bissau
- Interfaith marriage
- intermarriage
- Islam
- Islamization
- Jihad
- Karantaba
- Mandinka
- Mandinkization
- Merchant-scholars
- Ndiama
- Pakao
- Portuguese
- Qur’anic education
- Sénégal
- Senegambia
- Sonkoundou
- Souna
- Soungrougrou River
- Taabo tree
- The Gambia
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam
- Yacine
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DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11535757Editions