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The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools became powerful channels for African resistance during the eras of the slave trade and colonization. While illuminating the past, Ware also makes signal contributions to understanding contemporary Islam by demonstrating how the schools' epistemology of embodiment gives expression to classical Islamic frameworks of learning and knowledge.Today, many Muslims and non-Muslims find West African methods of Qur'an schooling puzzling and controversial. In fascinating detail, Ware introduces these practices from the viewpoint of the practitioners, explicating their emphasis on educating the whole human
Product details: The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa
Author : Rudolph T. Ware
Pages : 352 pages
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
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ISBN-10 : 1469614316
ISBN-13 : 9781469614311
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