Islam as a constitutive factor in African traditional religion: Wim van Binsbergen on geomantic divination
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January 2003 Completion for publication of the paper ‘Islam as a constitutive factor in African ‘‘traditional’ religion: The evidence from geomantic divination’’ (PDF) (paper read at the conference on Transformation processes and Islam in Africa, African Studies Centre and Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands, 15 October, 1999; forthcoming in: Breedveld, A., van Santen, J., & van Binsbergen, W.M.J., eds., Islam and transformations in Africa, Leiden: Brill


Opening page of al-Zanati's treatise


constructing the geomantic theme


Ifa diviner, Benin

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