Projektnummer

0063873

Zusammenfassung

Sociopolitical developments in West Africa have not only made the headlines, but they have also become the center of attention in the study of contemporary Africa and Muslim societies. This is so in part because these developments have unveiled unfamiliar appropriations of Islam, including violent ones. How to understand these processes? What are their historical and cultural trajectories ? What modernity of Islam and Muslim societies do they call attention to? How can academic institutions contribute to the engagement with these processes, especially in a context where understandings,...