Kobo, Ousman Murzik. Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms

Kobo, Ousman Murzik. — Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2012, 383 p., bibl. Ousman Kobo’s book is an excellent comparative study of the so-called Wahhabi movement in Burkina Faso and in Ghana. As Kobo acknowledges, the label “Wahhabi” is controversial, and the organizations in question now refer to themselves as “Ahl as-Sunna”, “The people of the Sunna”. However, the Sunni label is just as problematic, deliberately meant to imply t..