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Title: | Sufism in Somaliland: A Study in Tribal Islam. Part One |
Author: | Lewis, Ioan M. |
Year: | 1955 |
Periodical: | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 3 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Somalia |
Subjects: | Somali Sufism Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
Abstract: | This essay sets out to examine the role of Sufism in the social structure of the Somali and is designed to elucinate the nature and function of Somali genealogies: I Preliminary (the Somali Lineage System) II Islam (relations with Arabia: The introduction of Islam; Sufism among the Somali; Somali Tariqas; the Cult of saints; The role of Sufism in the social structure; Adoption Genealogical assimilation); III Cushitic Religion (Zar and Waag; Other religious concepts); IV Sufism and syncretism (Sufism and the Sharia; The nature of God and this world; the sab in Islam; Saar rites and Dhikr; The assimilation of Baraka). Bibliography. |