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SUMMARY
The modernist dream of the universalisation of culture has had an influential impact on Somali society through the adoption of Islam at the expense of pre-Islamic Somali culture. Aspects of pre-Islamic Somali religion are relegated to the periphery in contemporary Somali society. Critical studies concerned with contemporary Somali society have observed certain aspects that were salient in pre-Islamic Somali tradition. In this passage, Mire attests to the existence of pre-Islamic Somali worship of the sky god alongside Islamic beliefs. The modernist tendency to privilege the contemporary world religions over ancient . . .
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