Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa

Roman Loimeier (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

560 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9543-0 (ISBN)

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Based on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local context to explain the different trajectories of development.
The book studies the social, religious and political impact of these reform movements in both historical and contemporary times and asks why some have become successful as popular mass movements, while others failed to attract substantial audiences. It also considers jihad-minded movements in contemporary Mali, northern Nigeria and Somalia and looks at modes of transnational entanglement of movements of reform. Against the background of a general inquiry into what constitutes ‘reform’, the text responds to the question of what ‘reform’ actually means for Muslims in contemporary Africa.

Roman Loimeier is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. He specializes on Muslim societies in Africa and has done extensive fieldwork in Senegal, northern Nigeria and Tanzania as well as shorter research trips to South Africa, Ethiopia, Egypt and Morocco since the early 1980s. He is particularly interested in the history of Islamic reform and the social, religious and political implications of reform.

Glossary of Arabic Terms vi

Foreword xii

A Note on Islamic Transnational Organisations xvii

1 Introduction: The Context of Reform 1

2 What is Reform? 17

3 Reform in Context I: Senegal (and Mali) 64

4 Reform in Context II: Northern Nigeria (and Niger) 145

5 Reform in Context III: Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia 221

6 Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya) 317

7 Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros) 380

8 Conclusion: The Meaning of Islamic Reform 457

Bibliography 473

Index 000

Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	950 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7486-9543-5 / 0748695435
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-9543-0 / 9780748695430
Zustand	Neuware