Encuentro entre el Islam y la religiosidad africana

Abstract

The Islam as religion and motor element of civilization for its followers include everything in the life of the Muslims. All the acts oí the life are governed of almost exclusive form by the Islamic religion. In the Islam the relation of the being with God, the Only one, is direct and it does not admit intermediary some; thus, each individual is its own priest. They are violatorias of the rules of the Islam: associating the cult to God with the cult to another divinity, as well as practicing the magical! witchcraft and other procedures to influence in the course of the life, or with beneficial or maleficent intentions. The unicity of God, the rejection to the association with another divinity and the intermediaries is the foundations of this religion. However, the Islam, when being implanted in the civilizations of the Africa of the West that adopted it, has had to find forms of spiritual adaptation that for many they do not create contradiction problem some. Nevertheless, for the intellectuals, the balance between African religiosity and the Islam are not so easy.