Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization,
Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa,
this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last
millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not
take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles
of Muslims in the Muslim state of Morocco and in the Hausaland region
of Nigeria. He portrays the ways in which Islam was practiced in the
'pagan' societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda) and in the
ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia - beginning with the first
emigration of Muslims from Mecca in 615 CE, well before the
foundational hijra to Medina in 622. He concludes with chapters on the
Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement that
originated in Senegal, and reflections in the wake of the events of
September 11, 2001.
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ISBN
9780511162749
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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