“The Role of Culture in Senegalese Muslims: A Betrayal of Faith or A Tool for Peace and Political Stability?”

Abstract

One of the rare models of Islamic practice to have attracted the attention and curiosity of religious analysts, historians and social scientists is Islam as practiced in Senegal by the majority of Muslims. Indeed, far from being considered as a betrayal of the prophetic Sunna and the Sharia, this model reflects the abyssal depths of the culture and allows the Senegalese to be themselves and then believers. What the Senegalese Muslim does is that he is always in tune with his socio-cultural values ​​while remaining faithful to religious (cult) practices, hence his ability to resist Arab and French cultures and draw from them a syncretic model that guarantees social peace and political stability without equal in the world. This expresses the tendency of a perspective with an assimilated and dominated culture (colonization) or that of a perspective integrated into culture (Sufi Islam).