Roman Loimeier

Muslim Societies in Africa

A Historical Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9780253007889
• ISBN-10: 0253007887
• Artikelnr.: 36124899

Autorenporträt

Roman Loimeier

Inhaltsangabe

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