TY - BOOK ID - 7249017 TI - Shiʻi cosmopolitanisms in Africa : Lebanese migration and religious conversion in Senegal PY - 2015 SN - 9780253015990 9780253016010 9780253016058 0253016053 0253015995 0253016010 PB - Bloomington: Indiana university press, DB - UniCat KW - Shīʻah KW - Shiites KW - Lebanese KW - Conversion KW - Sunnites KW - Religion KW - Relations KW - Lebanon KW - Emigration and immigration KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A73 KW - #SBIB:316.331H421 KW - Religious conversion KW - Psychology, Religious KW - Proselytizing KW - Ethnology KW - Shia Muslims KW - Shiah Muslims KW - Shiahs KW - Shias KW - Shiite Muslims KW - Muslims KW - Imamites KW - Shia KW - Shiism KW - Twelvers (Islam) KW - Islamic sects KW - Alids KW - Religion. KW - Shīʻah. KW - Sunnites. KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Etnografie: Afrika KW - Morfologie van de godsdiensten: Islam KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Sunni Muslims KW - Sunnis KW - Relations&delete& KW - Liban KW - République libanaise KW - Libanon KW - Lubnān KW - Libanan KW - Livan KW - Mont-Liban (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) KW - Jabal Lubnān (Turkey : Mutaṣarrifīyah) KW - Levanon KW - Líbano KW - Livanos KW - Grand Lebanon KW - Grand Liban KW - Lebanese Republic KW - Jumhūrīyah al Lubnānīyah KW - Jumhouriya al-Lubnaniya KW - Republic of Lebanon KW - لبنان KW - جمهورية اللبنانية KW - Ліван KW - Ліванская Рэспубліка KW - Livanskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Ливан KW - Република Ливан KW - Republika Livan KW - Λίβανος KW - Δημοκρατία του Λιβάνου KW - Dēmokratia tou Livanou KW - Jumhūrīyyah al-Lubnānīyyah KW - 레바논 KW - לבנון KW - רפובליקה הלבנונית KW - Republiḳah ha-Levanonit KW - Либан KW - Либанска Република KW - Libanska Republika KW - レバノン KW - Rebanon KW - レバノン共和国 KW - Rebanon Kyōwakoku KW - Ливанская Республика KW - Республіка Ліван KW - Respublika Livan KW - Ліванська Республика KW - Livansʹka Respublyka KW - Levonen KW - 黎巴嫩 KW - Libanen KW - Shīʻah - Senegal KW - Shiites - Senegal KW - Lebanese - Senegal - Religion KW - Conversion - Shīʻah KW - Shīʻah - Relations - Sunnites KW - Sunnites - Relations - Shīʻah KW - Lebanon - Emigration and immigration KW - Shīʻah KW - Shī'ah. KW - Shīʻah. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7249017 AB - Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese ""converts"" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi'i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi'i hosti ER -