Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000

Zusatztext a very informative study which sheds light on both the cultural and historical factors that have informed teh spread of Islam in rural and urban locations in the region. Informationen zum Autor Felicitas Becker is Assistant Professor of African History at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Klappentext Tanzania has moved from widespread conversion to Islam in the early twentieth century to recent bitter disputes over Islamic radicalism. Using a combination of government, mission and oral records, this volume examines the intellectual and social forces behind these transitions. Zusammenfassung Tanzania has moved from widespread conversion to Islam in the early twentieth century to recent bitter disputes over Islamic radicalism. Using a combination of government, mission and oral records, this volume examines the intellectual and social forces behind these transitions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Migration, trade, and religious change at the onset of colonialism, 1890-1905 2: From Muslim big men to rural waalimu, 1905-27 3: Teachers, elders and shehe: how Islam came to the villages 4: The growth of rural madrasa 5: The book, the wilderness, and the family: Islamic doctrine and African practice 6: The heritage of slavery and the educationalist shehe of the Sufi brotherhoods 7: New horizons: the era of independence, 1954-67 8: Internal debates and international influences: the rise of Islamic radicalism in the 1990s Conclusion

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• Authors: Felicitas Becker, Felicitas (Assistant Professor Becker, Becker Felicitas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2008
• EAN: 9780197264270
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726427-0
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F; British Academy Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs; British Academy Postdoctoral F
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Tanzania, RELIGION / Islam / History, HISTORY / Africa / East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, African History