| Titre | Le Livre du désert : La vision du monde d'un lettré musulman de l'Ouest saharien au XIXe siècle | |
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| Auteur | Ismail Warscheid | |
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Revue | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales |
| Numéro | vol. 73, no 2, avril-juin 2018 Écrire l'histoire de l'islam moderne et contemporain – Biologie et sciences sociales | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Écrire l'histoire de l'islam moderne et contemporain |
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| Page | 359-384 | |
| Résumé anglais | This article provides an analysis of the Book of the Desert (Kitāb al-Bādiya), a nineteenth-century legal treatise written by Muḥammad al-Māmī (d. 1282/1865), a Muslim scholar from the Tiris desert in present-day Mauritania. In his book, the author reflects on the adaptation of sharia—the religious law of Islam—to the needs of pastoral populations in the western Sahara: how to embrace a normative system that at first glance seems incompatible with nomadic ways of life, given that it presupposes the existence of a state governed by an Islamic ruler (imām) and considers the city the natural environment for legal institutions? Challenging the narratives of center-periphery relationships and the so-called post-classical “decline” that continue to structure the field of Islamic intellectual history, this article seeks to explore the different contextual layers of al-Māmī's reasoning as a scholar: that of a religious notable deeply involved in the struggle for power among nomadic groups and a fervent supporter of the jihad movements in West Africa over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; that of a Muslim jurist of the mālikī school who approached his society from the perspective of Islamic legal thought; that of a Bedouin preoccupied with the legal and religious implications of the cultural gap separating his world from that of urban dwellers. | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=ANNA_732_0359 |
