Mara A Leichtman: 1 book
Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Lebanese Migration and Religious Conversion in Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
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...
