Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan-Based Society

by Ioan M. Lewis and I.M. Lewis

Book Overview

This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the author's collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa. Rigorous, outspoken, and backing his arguments with reflections based on a lifetime of research and scholarship, Lewis makes a major contribution to understanding the place and role of religion in Somali society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569021031
• ISBN13: 9781569021033
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"