Muslim Societies in Africa

Informationen zum Autor Roman Loimeier Klappentext Roman Loimeier is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of G ttingen. He is author of Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in Twentieth Century Zanzibar and Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. Zusammenfassung Offers a balanced view of the complexities of the African Muslim past while looking toward Africa's future role in the globalized Muslim world Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Geographical and Anthropological Setting 1. Is there an African Islam? 2. The bil d al-maghrib: Rebels, saints and heretics 3. The Sahara as connective space 4. Dynamics of Islamization in the bil d al-sÙd n 5. The dynamics of jih d in the bilÁd al-sÙdÁn 6. Islam in Nubia and Funj 7. Egyptian colonialism and the Mahd in the Sudan 8. Ethiopia and Islam 9. Muslims on the Horn of Africa 10. The East African Coast 11. Muslims in Cape Town: Community and Dispute 12. Muslims under Colonial Rule Conclusion Appendix Glossary of Arabic terms Notes Index

Autorentext

Roman Loimeier

Klappentext

Roman Loimeier is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of G ttingen. He is author of Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in Twentieth Century Zanzibar and Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria.

Zusammenfassung
Offers a balanced view of the complexities of the African Muslim past while looking toward Africa's future role in the globalized Muslim world

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Geographical and Anthropological Setting

1. Is there an African Islam?
2. The bil d al-maghrib: Rebels, saints and heretics
3. The Sahara as connective space
4. Dynamics of Islamization in the bil d al-sÙd n
5. The dynamics of jih d in the bilÁd al-sÙdÁn
6. Islam in Nubia and Funj
7. Egyptian colonialism and the Mahd in the Sudan
8. Ethiopia and Islam
9. Muslims on the Horn of Africa
10. The East African Coast
11. Muslims in Cape Town: Community and Dispute
12. Muslims under Colonial Rule
    Conclusion
    Appendix
    Glossary of Arabic terms
    Notes
    Index