Description
Product ID: | 9780823286508 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Morality at the Margins |
Subtitle: | Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya |
Authors: | Author: Sarah Hillewaert |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, African history, Islamic life and practice, Social and cultural anthropology, African history, Islamic life & practice, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Kenya |
Description: | Select Guide Rating What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior and speech that create moral personhood. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows how Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality. |
Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-11-05 |