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Reading with the colonial in the life of Shaykh Musa Kamara, a Muslim scholar-saint
Africa ( IF 1.235 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-01 , DOI: 10.1017/s0001972020000091
Wendell Marsh

Abstract The colonial-era Senegalese Muslim intellectual Shaykh Musa Kamara is best known for his over 1,700-page Arabic-language text about the history and social organization of the greater Western Sahel, Zuhūr al-basātīn fī tārīkh al-Sawādīn (Flowers in the Gardens in the History of the Blacks). Long celebrated by nationalist historiography as proof of an autochthonous historical consciousness and a spirit of tolerance, his status as a point of reference has been renewed in the contemporary context of Islamist political violence in the region. However, these receptions do not account for Kamara's own intellectual project, nor do they exhaust the possible readings of him in the present. In addition to thinking about Senegal in terms that cohere with the modern, Kamara also offers a way of thinking about the Muslim-majority West African country, and the greater Western Sahel more generally, in terms that have emerged from the historical specificity of the region. These include saintly subjectivity, notions of power irreducible to either the religious or the political, and a method of genealogical criticism. Importantly, he developed these ideas at the moment when a consensus about the place of Islam in colonial governance was being elaborated. Revisiting his body of work permits us to consider an analytical language about an African society with deep histories of Islam and an intellectual elaboration that was expressed within and sought to intervene in a colonial context.

中文翻译:

与殖民者一起阅读穆斯林学者圣人谢赫·穆萨·卡马拉 (Shaykh Musa Kamara) 的生活

摘要 殖民时代的塞内加尔穆斯林知识分子谢赫·穆萨·卡马拉以其超过 1,700 页的关于大西萨赫勒地区历史和社会组织的阿拉伯语文本 Zuhūr al-basātīn fī tārīkh al-Sawādīn(花园中的花朵)而闻名。在黑人历史中)。长期以来,民族主义史学一直将他视为本土历史意识和宽容精神的证明,他作为参考点的地位在该地区伊斯兰政治暴力的当代背景下得到了更新。然而,这些接待并没有说明卡马拉自己的智力项目,也没有穷尽目前对他的可能解读。除了从与现代相一致的角度考虑塞内加尔之外,卡马拉还提供了一种思考穆斯林占多数的西非国家和更广泛的西萨赫勒地区的方式,从该地区的历史特殊性中脱颖而出。这些包括神圣的主观性、不可归结为宗教或政治的权力观念,以及一种谱系批评的方法。重要的是,他在就伊斯兰教在殖民治理中的地位达成共识的那一刻发展了这些想法。重新审视他的作品使我们能够考虑一种关于非洲社会的分析语言,该社会具有深厚的伊斯兰教历史和在殖民背景下表达并试图干预的智力阐述。这些包括神圣的主观性、不可归结为宗教或政治的权力观念,以及一种谱系批评的方法。重要的是,他在就伊斯兰教在殖民治理中的地位达成共识的那一刻发展了这些想法。重新审视他的作品使我们能够考虑一种关于非洲社会的分析语言,该社会具有深厚的伊斯兰教历史和在殖民背景下表达并试图干预的智力阐述。这些包括神圣的主观性、不可归结为宗教或政治的权力观念,以及一种谱系批评的方法。重要的是,他在就伊斯兰教在殖民治理中的地位达成共识的那一刻发展了这些想法。重新审视他的作品使我们能够考虑一种关于非洲社会的分析语言,该社会具有深厚的伊斯兰教历史和在殖民背景下表达并试图干预的智力阐述。
更新日期:2020-05-01
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