David Robinson

Muslim Societies in African History

Herausgeber: Klein, Martin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from the Muslim societies of Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims thoughout the continent: in Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria, in the societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda), and in the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia. He concludes with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780521533669
• ISBN-10: 052153366X
• Artikelnr.: 21201223

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: the Foundations: 1. Muhammad and the birth of Islam
2. The basic institutions of the faith
Part II. Explorations in the Islamic Identities of Africa: 3. The Islamization of Africa
4. The Africanization of Islam
5. Muslim identity and the Slave Trades
6. Western views of Africa and Islam
Part III. Extended Case Studies: Muslim Societies in Old Nation-States of Africa: 7. Morocco: Muslims in a Muslim nation
8. Ethiopia Muslims in a Christian nation
Part IV. Muslim Societies in Pre-Colonial Africa: 9. Asante and Kumasi: a Muslim minority in a sea of Paganism
10. Sokoto and Hausaland: Jihad within the Dar al-Islam
Part V. Muslim Societies in Colonial Africa: 11. Buganda: religious competition for the Kingdom
12. The Mahdi and competing imperialisms
13. The Muridiyya: a Sufi Brotherhood under French Colonial rule
Conclusion.