Leif Manger

The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

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Produktbeschreibung

In the early centuries of migration, the Yemeni, or Hadrami, traveler was both a trader and a religious missionary, making the migrant community both a "trade diaspora" and a "religious diaspora." This tradition has continued as Hadramis around the world have been linked to networks of extremist, Islamic-inspired movements - Osama bin Laden...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781782383970
• ISBN-10: 1782383972
• Artikelnr.: 40454324

Autorenporträt

Leif Manger is a Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His recent publications include, Diasporas Within and Without Africa: Dynamism, Hetereogeneity, Variation (co-edited with Munzoul A.M. Assal, Uppsala 2006). He has published works on trade, communal labor, and socio-cultural processes of Arabization and Islamization.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Introducing the issues
Part One: Diasporic communites within empires and nation states
Chapter One: Singapore: Making Muslim space in a global city
Chapter Two: Hyderabad: From winners to losers
Chapter Three: Hadramis in Sudan: a Red Sea tale
Chapter Four: Ethiopia: the problem of being "Arab", "Somali", "Capitalist"
and "Terrorist"
Part Two: Identities in the making
Chapter Five: Maintaining a Hadrami identity in the diaspora
Chapter Six: Homeland-diaspora dynamics: problematizing diasporic
consciousness among Sada and non-Sada groups
Chapter Seven: Resisting the West: Muslim universalism versus Western
globalization in the Indian Ocean
Bibliography