[Reader-list] State and Sufi Islam in Senegal: The (Un) Making of the Senegalese Social Contract (Golden Jubilee Lecture by Mamadou Diouf)

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture



*State and Sufi Islam in Senegal: *

*The (Un)Making of the Senegalese Social Contract*

by* Mamadou Diouf*



*Shail Mayaram *will Chair

Friday, 21 March 2014, 6.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





Senegal has been hailed as a model of "Good Islam". The social contract
-the formal and informal system of exchange - established between the Sufi
clericals and the state, has been credited for the political stability of
the postcolonial state. My lecture examines the complex web of
relationships (the "Islamo-Wolof model") and the active and changing forms
of the state and Sufi brotherhoods management of religious pluralism since
the colonial period. The lecture is also an attempt to locate the
Senegalese religion, state, society relations in the global conceptual
architecture of the secularism/*la**ï**cité *debate.



*Mamadou Diouf* is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History
at Columbia University, where he also leads the Institute of African
Studies<http://www.ias.columbia.edu/>.
Prior to teaching at Columbia, he taught at the University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor) and Cheikh Anta Diop University <http://www.ucad.sn/> (Senegal). He
is the author, editor and co-author of several other works including: *Islam,
Tolerance, Democracy and the Sufis in Senegal* (2013); *New Perspectives on
Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power and
Femininity*(edited with Mara Leichtman, 2009).



 *Shail Mayaram *is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.

Praveen Rai
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