Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- A note on spelling
- Glossary
- Map of Senegal
- Introduction: good Africans, good citizens, good Muslims
- 1 Islam in the politics of state–society relations
- 2 The structure of society: Fatick in the Senegalese context
- 3 The state–citizen relationship: struggle over bridges
- 4 The marabout–disciple relationship I: foundations of recruiting and following
- 5 The marabout–disciple relationship II: the structures of allegiance
- 6 The state–marabout relationship: collaboration, conflict, and alternatives
- 7 Bureaucrats, marabouts, and citizen–disciples: how precarious a balance?
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- A note on spelling
- Glossary
- Map of Senegal
- Introduction: good Africans, good citizens, good Muslims
- 1 Islam in the politics of state–society relations
- 2 The structure of society: Fatick in the Senegalese context
- 3 The state–citizen relationship: struggle over bridges
- 4 The marabout–disciple relationship I: foundations of recruiting and following
- 5 The marabout–disciple relationship II: the structures of allegiance
- 6 The state–marabout relationship: collaboration, conflict, and alternatives
- 7 Bureaucrats, marabouts, and citizen–disciples: how precarious a balance?
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary

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- Islamic Society and State Power in SenegalDisciples and Citizens in Fatick, pp. xvii - xixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995