Randall L. Pouwels, Pouwels Randall L.

Horn and Crescent

Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800 1900
Herausgeber: Anderson, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major historical study of Islam among the Swahili.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521523097
• ISBN-10: 0521523095
• Artikelnr.: 22055034

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations and maps
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. The roots of a tradition, 800-1500
2. The emergence of a tradition, 900-1500
3. A northern metamorphosis, 1500-1800
Appendix
4. Town Islam and the umma ideal
5. Wealth, piety, justice, and learning
6. The Zanzibar Sultanate, 1812-88
7. New secularism and bureaucratic centralization
8. A new literacy
9. The early colonial era, 1885-1914
10. Currents of popularism and eddies of reform
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.