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4 pages in length. Examining the ways in which Islam spread in Conde's "Segu" as compared to Robinson's "Paths of Accommodation," it is important to pay particular attention to such aspects as contesting, gaining, maintaining, promoting, etc., in order to determine just how drastically Islam impacted religious, cultural, social, political and economic elements for the people of Bamba. Indeed, the transition presented significant challenges to a people whose existence was wholly different prior to Islamic immersion, a point the student will want to note as being one of the most difficult aspects Islam presented to the people of Bamba, inasmuch as their entire way of life was permanently altered when the industrialization of manufactured goods ultimately found their way into otherwise traditional households. No additional sources cited.
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such aspects as contesting, gaining, maintaining, promoting, etc., in order to determine just how drastically Islam impacted religious, cultural, social, political and economic elements for the people of Bamba.
Indeed, the transition presented significant challenges to a people whose existence was wholly different prior to Islamic immersion, a point the student will want to note as being one of
the most difficult aspects Islam presented to the people of Bamba, inasmuch as their entire way of life was permanently altered when the industrialization of manufactured goods ultimately found their
way into otherwise traditional households. "It was not unusual to see well-born young men in boots bought from some trader. Many families had silver dishes in their huts,
and the Mansa proudly displayed to his friends a service of fine Chinese porcelain that he never actually used" (Conde PG). Tiekoro represents
- by way of discrete application - the epitome of struggle between old and new. With Conde placing a great deal of inferred emphasis upon an intrinsic connection between
Tiekoros father and Allahs disciple, the author is able to form an inextricable bond between Segovian and Muslim influence. That virtually every aspect of Bambara existence changed drastically -
from acceptable clothing to monetary exchange and sexual habits to polygamy - speaks to a forcible shift in what had always been the only way of life for the people
of Bamba. For example, the physical and mental anguish Tiekoro went through when all of a sudden forced into chastity was particularly difficult, in that he was wholly accustomed
since age twelve to fornicating with the young slaves who served his father. Even between two consenting and married people, however, Islam still rendered sex as evil. A
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