Islam and gender in the Murid diaspora: postcolonial regard to feminisms and migrations

The basic intention of this article is, through a pluralization of gaze on "the Muslim", to reflect on contemporary transformations operated de facto in our societies, motivated especially by pluralizing practices and worldviews, often following migration situations. The look on Islam will be diversified across two main ways: the approach of the "black Islam", especially as practiced by the Sufi brotherhoods (the Senegalese Muridiyya, specifically as a paradigmatic example), and a view from postcolonial feminism on gender crucial aspects in such brotherhoods. These heuristics pathways to develop the main goal are based on ethnographic methodology, as empirical reference. The most relevant conclusions point to the richness and variability of black Islam, the indigenous one and within migrant diaspora, in their praxis and epistemology, which will help to pluralize and refine contemporary discussions on migration and citizenship.