Required readings (in order they are assigned)
1. Ross, Eric (2005), “From marabout republics to autonomous rural communities: autonomous Muslim towns in Senegambia”, in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, edited by Steven J. Salm & Toyin Falola, University of Rochester Press.
2. Ross, Eric (2012), “Building Community: Configuring Authority and Identity on the Public Squares of Contemporary Senegalese Sufi Centers”, in Prayer in the City: The Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban Life, edited by Patrick Desplat & Dorothea Schultz, Transaction Publishers; New Brunswick N.J. & Transcript Verlag; Bielefeld.
3. Ross, Eric (2008), “Palaver Trees Reconsidered in the Senegalese Landscape: Arboreal Monuments and Memorials”, in African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change, edited by Michael Sheridan & Celia Nyamweru, James Currey/Ohio University Press/Unisa Press, Oxford, Athens , OH & Pretoria.
4. Ross, Eric (2013), “Christmas in Cambérène, or how Muhammad begets Jesus in Senegal”, in Muslims and Others in Sacred Space, edited by Margaret Cormack, Oxford University Press.
5. Ross, Eric (2011), “Globalizing Touba: Expatriate Disciples in the World City Network”, in Urban Studies, vol. 48, #14.
Suggested readings on Sufism in Senegal
•Babou, Cheikh Anta (2007), Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913, Ohio University Press, Athens.
•Gellar, Sheldon (2005), Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
•Mbacké, Khadim (2005), Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal, Eric Ross trans. John Hunwick ed. Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton.
•Roberts, Allen A. & Mary Nooter Roberts (2003), A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California Press, Los Angeles.
•Robinson, David (2000), Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920, Ohio University Press, Athens Ohio.
•Ross, Eric (2006), Sufi City: Urban Design and Archetypes in Touba, University of Rochester Press, Rochester NY.
•Searing, James F. (2002), “God Alone is King”: Islam and Emancipation in Senegal, the Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859-1914, Heinemann/James Currey/David Philip Publishers.
•Villalon, Leonardo A. (1995), Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick, Cambridge University Press.