Abstract

The merging of Islam and complementary religious universes has been a recurrent topic in anthropological research in Africa. Studies of such local manifestations of Islam have centered oral and performative dimensions, generating a focus on Islam as embodied and lived. Attentive to lived religion and the ways religious learning and practice surface in contexts of daily life, this chapter explores African Muslim life-worlds by considering the potency of locally engendered conceptions of reality and Salafi-inspired reformism and, in turn, how these interconnect with contemporary sociopolitical processes.