"Summary:This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history."
"English, French, or Indonesian.No. <25> published in <1983> in Paris by: Association Archipel, with the cooperation of: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and: Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, under the patronage of: Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.Description based on: Vol. 1 (1971); title from cover image (Persee, viewed Oct. 7, 2010).Latest issue consulted: Vol. 68 (2004) (Persee, viewed Oct. 7, 2010)."
"In the period c. 1880-1940, Sufism in East Africa was the vehicle both for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. In this book, Sufi expansion is traced and situated within the wider framework of Islamic reform."
