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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Orthographic Notes xv Introduction: Islam, the Qurʾan School, and the Africans 1 CHAPTER 1. Education, Embodiment, and Epistemology 39 CHAPTER 2. Embodying Islam in West Africa: The Making of a Clerisy, ca. 1000–1770 77 CHAPTER 3. The Book in Chains: Slavery and Revolution in Senegambia, 1770–1890 110 CHAPTER 4. Bodies of Knowledge: Schooling, Sufism, and Social Change in Colonial Senegal, 1890–1945 163 CHAPTER 5. Disembodied Knowledge?: “Reform” and Epistemology in Senegal, 1945–Present 203 Conclusion: The Qurʾan School, the Body, and the Health of the Umma 237 Glossary 259 Notes 261 Bibliography 295 Index 319 This page intentionally left blank ...

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