Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

by Rudolph T. Ware

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614316
• ISBN13: 9781469614311
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"