Women and Islamic revival in a West African town
By: Adeline Masquelier.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353665; 9780253215130
Subjects: Muslim women -- Niger -- Dogondoutchi -- Social conditions; Women -- Niger -- Dogondoutchi -- Social conditions; Islam -- Niger -- Dogondoutchi; Dogondoutchi (Niger) -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi; title: "Those who pray": religious transformations in the colonial and early postcolonial period; title: Debating Muslims, disputed practices: the new public face of Islam; title: When charisma comes to town: Malam Awal or the making of a modern saint; title: Building a mosque in the home of a spirit: changing topographies of power and piety; title: How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth, and women's value; title: Fashioning Muslimhood: dress, modesty, and the construction of the virtuous woman; title: "The fart does not light the fire": "bad" women, "true" believers, and the reconfiguration of moral domesticity.