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- Title
DU SOUFISME AU RÉFORMISME: LA TRAJECTOIRE DE MOHAMED HABIB, IMAM AÀ COTONOU.
- Authors
Brégand, Denise
- Abstract
This article deals with the story life of a reformist Islamic scholar, el Hadj Ibrahim Habib, who was appointed imam of the Zongo Mosque in Cofonou by his father, the cheikh of the Tidjaniyya Sufi order. This young imam has developed new tools of communication and has built around him a very dynamic organization. His mosque has become the centre of reformist Islam in the southern part of Benin Republic, and the da'wa members have been strongly involved in Islamic associations. El Hadj Habib, who was for long absent from the country has been in the last fifteen years "reconnected" before becoming an important local notable. The complexity of the Islamic landscape in Cotonou cannot be reduced to a dichotomy between Sufi tradition and reformist Islam. As such, El Hadj Habib is a good example of possible links between Sufism and reformism which have been found in other places of the continent.
- Subjects
BENIN; HABIB, Hadj; IMAMS (Mosque officers); MOSQUES; COMMUNICATION; ISLAM; DA'WAH (Islam); ISLAMIC literature; SUFISM; EQUIPMENT &; supplies
- Publication
Politique Africaine, 2009, Issue 116, p121
- ISSN
0244-7827
- Publication type
Article