Beyond jihad : the pacifist tradition in West African Islam 1st Edition Sanneh

Introduction: Issues and Directions

Part One: Historical Genesis

1. Beyond North Africa: Synthesis and Transmission

2. Beyond the Veil: The Almoravids and Ghana

3. Beyond Desert Trails: Religion and Social Change

4. Beyond Routes and Kingdoms: New Frontiers, Old Hinterlands

Part Two: Clerical Emergence

5. Beyond Trade and Markets: Community and Vocation

6. Beyond Homeland: Religious Formation and Expansion

7. Beyond Tribe and Tongue in Futa Jallon: Religion and Ethnicity

8. Beyond Consolidation: Rejuvenating the Heritage

9. Beyond Confrontation and Crisis: Colonial Denouement

10. Beyond Confinement: Mobile Cells and the Clerical Web

11. Beyond Consensus: A House Divided

Part Three: Wider Horizons

12. Beyond Jihad: Champions and Opponents

13. Beyond Politics: Comparative Perspectives

14. End of Jihad? Tradition and Continuity