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Title Medina Gounass: the End of a Religious Isolate
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/17341
Date 1999
Author(s) Hoven, E. van
Abstract Medina Gounass is an isolated religious community situated in a remote area of Senegal. Until the 1980s, the leader of this branch of the Tijan tariqa refused all contact with the state authorities. The imperatives of shari'a were rigorously applied in nearly all aspects of social and religious life. But after the death of the founder of the community, things changed dramatically. Disputes between the heirs of the founder's legacy, struggles over agricultural resources, and fierce competition between supporters of political parties, made the intervention of the worldly authorities inevitable. Today, the community of Medina Gounass is, like so many Sufi orders in Senegal, courted by the state elite.
Subject(s) Medina Gounass
Language en_US
Publisher ISIM, Leiden
Type of publication Article / Letter to editor
Format 204668 bytes; application/pdf
Source 4; 1; 25; 25; 1; ISIM Newsletter
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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