Popular and formal Islam, and supralocal relations: the Highlands of Northwestern Tunisia, 1800-1970

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Title:	Popular and formal Islam, and supralocal relations: the Highlands of Northwestern Tunisia, 1800-1970
Author:	Binsbergen, Wim van
Year:	1979
Pages:	27
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tunisia
Subjects:	Islam social change
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/8940
Abstract:	The present paper explores the interplay between local popular Islam and the repeated introduction of formal Islam in Khrumiria, North-western Tunisia, against the background of its social and political structure and the radical changes the latter underwent in the colonial and post-colonial era. The dynamics underlying the relation between the two versions of Islam in Khrumiria should be interpreted primarily by reference to supra-local political and economic incorporation processes, i.e. to ultimately non-religious factors.