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Cantone, Cleo.

Making and remaking mosques in Senegal [electronic resource] / by Cleo Cantone. - Boston : Brill, 2012. - xliv, 408 p. [22 p.] of plates : ill., maps. - Islam in Africa, v. 13 1570-3754 ; .

Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)--SOAS, University of London, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sudanese style mosques and their little known relatives in Futa Toro (15th-mid 19th century) -- The birth of the 'colonial mosque' : hybridity, French policy and Muslim identity (ca. 1820-1920) -- Regionalism, revivals and repercussions on Senegalese mosques (ca. 1920-1950s) -- The contemporary urban mosque phenomenon : mosquees confreriques, mosquees ibadou (1960s-present) -- Women, space and West African mosques.


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ebrary,
2013.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mosques--Senegal.
Mosques--History.--Senegal
Islamic architecture--History.--Senegal
Women in Islam--History.--Senegal

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: NA6099.S4 / C36 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 726.209663