4. Dakar’s Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. 1. Introduction: The Public Role of the “Good Islam”: Sufi Islam and the Administration of Pluralism 1
6. 2. A Secular Age and the World of Islam 36
7. 3. Islam’s New Visibility and the Secular Public in Senegal 51
8. 4. Dakar’s Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City 73
9. 5. Sovereign Islam in a Secular State: Hidden Knowledge and Sufi Governance Among “Taalibe Baay” 99
10. 6. The Senegalese “Social Contract” Revisited: The Muridiyya Muslim Order and State Politics in Postcolonial Senegal 125
11. 7. Religious and Cultural Pluralism in Senegal: Accommodation Through “Proportional Equidistance”? 147
12. 8. Islam, the “Originaires,” and the Making of Public Space in a Colonial City: Saint-Louis of Senegal 180
13. 9. Stateness, Democracy, and Respect: Senegal in Comparative Perspective 205
14. 10. Negotiating Islam in the Era of Democracy: Senegal in Comparative Regional Perspective 239
15. Glossary 267
16. Contributors 269
17. Index 273