Benjamin Soares
Benjamin Soares is an anthropologist whose research interests include religion and 'modernity', Islam, and religious encounters in West Africa. In recent work, he has looked at the connections between changing modalities of religious expression, different modes of belonging, and emergent social imaginaries in colonial and postcolonial West Africa, especially in Mali. In addition to ongoing research on religion, the public sphere, and media, he is studying contemporary Muslim public intellectuals in West Africa.
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Dr.
B.F.
(Benjamin)
Soares
Email adress: bsoares@ascleiden.nl
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Senior researcher
Email adress: bsoares@ascleiden.nl
Phone number: +31 (0)71 527 3365
ASC room number: 3.B55a
Link to publications by Benjamin Soares in the ASC catalogue (link opens in a new window)
Africa in the World - Rethinking Africa’s global connections
Islam in colonial and postcolonial Mali
Islam, politics and society in Senegal
Muslim Africa’s global connections
New Muslim public figures and changing Muslim socialities in Africa
Rethinking contemporary African history and historiography
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Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes (2011)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Rasta sufis' and Muslim youth culture in Mali (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Islam, politics, anthropology (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Amadou Hampâté Bâ's life and work reconsidered: critical and historical perpectives (2010)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Islam, politics, anthropology (2010)
Type of Publication: Book
Special issue: Amadou Hampâté Bâ's life and work reconsidered: critical and historical perpectives (2010)
Type of Publication: Book
Islam, état et societé en Afrique (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
Introduction: Islam, état et societé en Afrique (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
"Being as good Muslims as Frenchmen": On Islam and colonial modernity in West Africa (2009)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Special issue: Islam, politics, anthropology (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
La formation d'une 'sphère islamique' en Afrique Occidentale française (1895-1958) (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
An Islamic social movement in Contemporary West Africa: NASFAT of Nigeria (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
The attempt to reform family law in Mali (2009)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
L'islam au Mali dans l'ère néolibérale (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Introduction: Muslim West Africa in the age of neoliberalism (2008)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Les sciences ésotériques musulmanes et le commerce d'amulettes au Mali (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Islam and Muslim politics in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book
Introduction : Islam and Muslim politics in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Saint and Sufi in contemporary Mali (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa (2006)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa (2006)
Type of Publication: Book
Islam and the prayer economy: history and authority in a Malian town (2005)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Ousmane Kane, 'Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: a study of the society for the removal of innovation and reinstatement of tradition, Islam in Africa, volume 1' (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Islam, transnationalism, and the public sphere in Western Europe (2004)
Type of Publication: Book
Notes on the anthropological study of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa (2004)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
An African Muslim saint and his followers in France (2004)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Notes on the Tijâniyya Hamawaiyya in Nioro du Sahel after the second exile of its shaykh (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French colonial West Africa (1999)
Type of Publication: Book
The spiritual economy of Nioro du Sahel: Islamic discourses and practices in a Malian religious center (1999)
Type of Publication: Book
Muslim proselytization as purification: religious pluralism and conflict in contemporary Mali (1999)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of Dale F. Eickelman & James Piscatori : Muslim Politics (1998)
Type of Publication: Review
Nigeria's economic crisis: bibliographic sources to 1996 (1997)
Type of Publication: Book
The Fulbe "shaykh"and the Bambara "pagans": contemporary campaigns to spread Islam in Mali (1997)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Falkeiana IV: the shaykh as the locus of divine self-disclosure : a poem in praise of shaykh .Ham_ahu 'll_ah (1996)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
A contemporary Malian Shaykh: Al-Hajj Shaykh Sidy Modibo Kane Diallo, the religious leader of Dilly (1996)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
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Special issue: Islam, politics, anthropology
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, ISSN 1359-0987, vol. 15, issue supplement S1, p. S1-S240 2009
B.F. Soares; F. Osella
Islam and the prayer economy: history and authority in a Malian town
Edinburgh/Ann Arbor: Edinburgh University Press/University of Michigan Press, International African library, ISSN 0951-1377 ; 32 2005
B.F. Soares
The spiritual economy of Nioro du Sahel: Islamic discourses and practices in a Malian religious center
Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Dissertation Services, 1999
B.F. Soares
The formation of an 'Islamic sphere' in French colonial West Africa
[S.l.]: Taylor & Francis, 1999
R. Launay; B.F. Soares
Nigeria's economic crisis: bibliographic sources to 1996
Evanston, IL: Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, PAS working papers ; no. 2 1997
B.F. Soares
'Family law reform in Mali: contentious debates and elusive outcomes'
In: M. Badran: 'Gender and Islam in Africa: rights, sexuality, and law', Washington, DC & Stanford, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford University Press, 2011.
'Islam, politics, anthropology'
In: B.F. Soares; F. Osella: 'Islam, politics, anthropology', Oxford/Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
'Rasta sufis' and Muslim youth culture in Mali'
'Being young and Muslim: new cultural politics in the global south and north', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
'Introduction: Islam, état et societé en Afrique'
In: R. Otayek; B.F. Soares: 'Islam, état et societé en Afrique', Paris: Karthala, 2009.
'L'islam au Mali dans l'ère néolibérale'
In: R. Otayek; B.F. Soares: 'Islam, état et societé en Afrique', Paris: Karthala, 2009.
'An Islamic social movement in Contemporary West Africa: NASFAT of Nigeria'
In: S.D.K. Ellis; I. van Kessel: 'Movers and shakers : social movements in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2009.
'La formation d'une 'sphère islamique' en Afrique Occidentale française (1895-1958)'
In: G. Holder: 'L'Islam, nouvel espace public en Afrique', Paris: Karthala, 2009.
'Les sciences ésotériques musulmanes et le commerce d'amulettes au Mali'
In: C. Hamès: 'Magie et écriture islamique dans les mondes africain et européen', Paris: Karthala, 2007.
'Saint and Sufi in contemporary Mali'
In: Mvan Bruinessen; J.D. Howell: 'Sufism and the 'modern' in Islam', London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
'Introduction : Islam and Muslim politics in Africa'
In: B.F. Soares; R. Otayek: 'Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa', New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
'Introduction: Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa'
In: B.F. Soares: 'Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2006.
'Islam and public piety in Mali'
In: A. Salvatore; D.F. Eickelman: 'Public Islam and the common good', Leiden: Brill, 2004.
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'Muslim saints in the age of neoliberalism'
In: B. Weiss: 'Producing African futures : ritual and reproduction in a neoliberal age', Leiden: Brill, 2004.
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'Notes on the Tijâniyya Hamawaiyya in Nioro du Sahel after the second exile of its shaykh'
In: J.L. Triaud; D. Robinson: 'La Tijâniyya : une confrérie musulmane à la conquête de l'Afrique', Paris: Karthala, 2000.
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'Muslim proselytization as purification: religious pluralism and conflict in contemporary Mali'
In: A.A. An-Nai'im: 'Proselytization and communal self-determination in Africa', Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999.
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'The Fulbe "shaykh"and the Bambara "pagans": contemporary campaigns to spread Islam in Mali'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; J.W.M. van Dijk: 'Peuls et Mandingues : dialectique des constructions identitaires', Paris: Karthala, 1997.
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Special issue: Amadou Hampâté Bâ's life and work reconsidered: critical and historical perpectives
B.F. Soares; R.A. Austen (editors)
Islamic Africa, ISSN 2154-0993, vol.1, nr. 2, p. 133-247 2010.
Islam, politics, anthropology
B.F. Soares; F. Osella (editors)
Oxford/Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Islam, état et societé en Afrique
R. Otayek; B.F. Soares (editors)
Paris: Karthala, 2009.
Islam and Muslim politics in Africa
B.F. Soares; R. Otayek (editors)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa
B.F. Soares (editors)
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Islam in Africa,6 2006.
Islam, transnationalism, and the public sphere in Western Europe
B.F. Soares; R.D. Grillo (editors)
Journal of ethnic and migration studies, ISSN 1369-183X, vol. 30, nr. 5, p. 861-1038 2004.
'Amadou Hampâté Bâ's life and work reconsidered: critical and historical perpectives'
in: Islamic Africa, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 133 - 142, 2010.
'"Being as good Muslims as Frenchmen": On Islam and colonial modernity in West Africa'
in: Journal of religion in Africa, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 91 - 120, 2009.
'The attempt to reform family law in Mali'
in: Die Welt des Islams, vol. 49, no. 3/4, pp. 398 - 428, 2009.
'Introduction: Muslim West Africa in the age of neoliberalism'
in: Africa today, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. vii - xii, 2008.
'Rethinking Islam and Muslim societies in Africa'
in: African affairs, vol. 106, pp. 319 - 326, 2007.
'Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era'
in: African affairs, vol. 105, no. 418, pp. 77 - 95, 2005.
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'An African Muslim saint and his followers in France'
in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 913 - 927, 2004.
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'Notes on the anthropological study of Islam and Muslim societies in Africa'
in: Culture and Religion, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 277 - 285, 2004.
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'The prayer economy in a Malian town'
in: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 36, no. 144, pp. 739 - 753, 1996.
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'A contemporary Malian Shaykh: Al-Hajj Shaykh Sidy Modibo Kane Diallo, the religious leader of Dilly'
in: Islam et sociétés au sud du Sahara, no. 10, pp. 145 - 153, 1996.
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'Falkeiana IV: the shaykh as the locus of divine self-disclosure : a poem in praise of shaykh .Ham_ahu 'll_ah'
in: Sudanic Africa : a journal of historical sources, vol. 7, pp. 97 - 112, 1996.
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'Review of Ousmane Kane, 'Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: a study of the society for the removal of innovation and reinstatement of tradition, Islam in Africa, volume 1''
African affairs, no. 104, pp. 343 - 344, 2005.
'Review of Dale F. Eickelman & James Piscatori : Muslim Politics'
American Ethnologist, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 75 - 76, 1998.
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