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MIRAN MARY
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Master of conferences in EHESS
EHESS / CEAF, 96 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France.
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History
Marie.Miran@ehess.fr
Research topics
Sociopolitical history of the Muslim communities in Ivory Coast and on the coast of Guinea Dynamic internuns and conversions to Islam into Atlantic Western Africa Islam and religious modernity in the Africain city, particularly in Abidjan Political Islam, public sphere and transnationalisme in colonial Africa and postcoloniale Doctrine, spirituality and transmission of Islamic knowledges in local context Type in the production of knowledges, practices and of local Islamic powers
Fields
Ivory Coast mainly Ghana, Togo and Benin
Seminars and research workshops
Lessons
History of Africa with Western Washington University, Washington State, USA.
Research plans (participation)
Member of the research grouping international (GDRI) “to Govern the cities of Africa : laws, local institutions and urban identity since 1945”, co-ordinated by Laurent Fourchard (CEAN, IEP of Claret) and Simon Bekker (University of Stellenbosh, Southern Africa) on financing of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH for France and of National Research Foundation for the Southern Africa. Called by my personal plan : “Making Muslim space in multicultural cities : the urban polytic of religious networks and Islamic architecture in the coastal megalopolises of West Africa”. A first conference will take place in France the fine Januarbeginning of February, 2007. Details on http://www.gdri-africancities.org/
Within aforementioned GDRI, member of a research subgroup dedicated to the study of “minorities and (within) foreigners in the cities of Africa”. ATIP plan financed for 3 years by the section 40 of the NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
Publications
On 2006, Islam, history and modernity in Ivory Coast, Paris, Karthala, 546 pages (with the financial contribution of IISMM / EHESS)
With El Hadj Akan Charif Vissoh : « (Auto) biography of a conversion to Islam. Looks crossed on a history of religious change in the contemporary Benin » : to appear in the Notebooks of Africain studies
On 2007 (to appear in flight. 41, n ° 1), ' "The light of Islam comes from Ivory Coast’ : The dynamism of Islam of the Ivory Coast on the west stage - Africain and international », Canadian Magazine of Africain studies
On 2006, « The Political Economy of Civil Islam in Ivory Coast », in Mr Bröning and H. Weiss (éds)., Politischer Islam in Westafrika. Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Berlin, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Bed Verlag : 82-113
On 2005, « From Abidjan to Porto Novo : Islamic associations, reformist religious culture and transnationalisme on the coast of Guinea », in L. Fourchard, In. Mary and R. Otayek (éds)., transnational religious Firms in Western Africa, IFRA IBADAN, Karthala Paris : 43-72
On 2003, « Towards a new Islamic proselytising in Ivory Coast : a discreet revolution », in A. Piga (éd)., Islam and cities in Africa in the south of the Sahara. Between Sufism and fundamentalism, Paris, Karthala : 271-291
On 2001, « Back a nuovo proselitismo islamico nella Costa d' Avorio : una revoluzione discreta », in A. Piga (éd)., Islam e Città Nell' Africa A South Del Sahara. Tra Sufismo e Fundamentalismo, Roma, Liguori Editore : 219-239
On 2000, « Tijâniyya in Abidjan, between obsolescence and revival ; Where, work modernist of El Hâjj Ahmed Tijâni Bâ, tijâni reformist Sheikh in contemporary Ivory Coast », in J.-L. Triaud and D. Robinson (éds)., Tijâniyya in sub-Saharan Africa. A Muslim brotherhood in the conquest of Africa, Paris, Karthala : 439-467
On 2000 (in July), co-written with Robert Launay, « Beyond Mande Mory : Islam and Ethnicity in Ivory Coast », Paideuma, n ° 46 : 63-84
On 2000 (in October), « Towards a new Islamic proselytising in Ivory Coast : a discreet revolution », Autrepart, n ° 16 : 139-160.
Entire text on http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_7/autrepart/010023779.pdf
On 1999, « one thousand and one lives of El Hadj Boubacar Sakho, the sage of Treichville (1903-1997) », in A. Rouaud (éd.), The Orientalists are adventurers, Garland given to Joseph Tubiana by his pupils and his friends, Holy Maur, Editions Sepia, Library Pereisc 12 : 267-272
On 1998 (in December), « Wahhabism in Abidjan : Urban Dynamism of a reformist Islam in contemporary Ivory Coast (1960-1996) », Islam and Societies in the South of the Sahara, n ° 12 : 5-74
