Ioan M. Lewis,I.M. Lewis
Popular Islam in a ClanBased Society. This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the authors collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa. Rigorous, outspoken, and backing his arguments with reflections based on a lifetime of research and scholarship, Lewis makes a major contribution to understanding the place and role of religion in Somali society.
Religion,Islam,Eastern Africa,Somalia
Saints and Somalis: Popular Islam in a Clan-Based Society