Islam Among The Swahili In East Africa
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The Global Worlds of the Swahili
Author | : Roman Loimeier |
Publisher | : Lit Verlag |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This multidisciplinary volume challenges established ideas about "the world of the Swahili," proposing a perspective that highlights the transitory, shifting, and plural character of East African coastal societies, worldviews, and identities. The contributors give inside accounts of the broad spectrum of local perceptions of the world in the wider Swahili context. They demonstrate how these perceptions have been shaped by the interconnections of the East African coast with other geographical spaces and cultural spheres (especially Arabia, the Indian Ocean, and Europe). Offering new insights into the interaction of local culture, Islam, colonialism, the postcolony, and globalization, the volume shows that the "Swahili" belong to many worlds and continue to cultivate the interfaces between these worlds. The book is the outcome of several years of collaborative research, academic meetings, and individual paper presentations coordinated by the editors under the umbrella of the Collaborativ
Horn and Crescent
Author | : Randall L. Pouwels |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521523097 |
A major historical study of Islam among the Swahili.
Islam in East Africa
Author | : John Spencer Trimingham |
Publisher | : Oxford, Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : |
The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Author | : Philippe Beaujard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 946 |
Release | : 2019-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108424561 |
Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plates, and figures, he shows how Asia and Africa dominated the economic and cultural landscape and the flow of ideas in the pre-modern world. This led to a trans-regional division of labor and an Afro-Eurasian world economy. Beaujard questions the origins of capitalism and hints at how this world-system may evolve in the future. The result is a reorienting of world history, taking the Indian Ocean, rather than Europe, as the point of departure. Volume I provides in-depth coverage of the period from the fourth millennium BCE to the sixth century CE.
Islam and Politics in East Africa
Author | : August H. Nimtz, Jr. |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1980-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816658366 |
Islam and Politics in East Africa was first published in 1980. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Focusing on the interplay of religion, society, and politics, August Nimtz examines the role of sufi tariqas (brotherhoods) in Tanzania, where he observed an African Muslim society at first hand. Nimtz opens this book with a historical account of Islam in East Africa, and in subsequent chapters analyzes the role of tariqas in Tanzania and, more specifically, in the coastal city of Bagamoyo. Using a conceptual framework derived from contemporary political theories on social cleavages and individual interests. Nimtz explains why the tariqa is important in the process of political change. The fundamental cleavage in Muslim East Africa, he notes, is that of "whites" versus blacks. Nimtz contends that the tariqus, in serving the interest of blacks (that is, Africans), became in turn vehicles for the mass mobilization of African Muslims during the anti-colonial struggle. In Bagamoyo he finds a similar process and, in addition, reveals that the tariqas have served African interests in opposition to those of "whites" because of the individual benefits they provide. At the same time, Nimtz concludes, the social structure of East African Muslim society has ensured that Africans would be particularly attracted to these benefits. This work will interest both observers of African political development and specialists in the Islamic studies.
Traditional Swahili Poetry
Author | : Jan Knappert |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : |
Knowledge, Renewal and Religion
Author | : Kjersti Larsen |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Inst |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789171066350 |
Societies on the East African coast and of Swahili culture resist simplistic definition as well as the imposition of clear boundaries. Hence Swahili society and culture have a common mooring, and this book studies specificity in space and time within a broader comparative framework. This book examines how ongoing processes †ideological and material †affect relations within and between societies. The authors all provide ways to understand transformation in Swahili society, and how these are interlinked with ongoing political and economic processes, in East Africa as well as in the wider global context.
African Merchants of the Indian Ocean
Author | : John Middleton |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2003-11-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478609680 |
This new monograph serves as an authoritative introduction to an unusual people of eastern Africa known as Swahili. Middleton, who has known these people for a half a century, describes their highly stratified, merchant society and civilization, documenting their importance both for anthropologists and for others interested in Africa. Swahili continue today their centuries-old role as merchants in long-distance international trade, a role that has led them to form a society very distinct from any other in Africa. Middletons brief, personal treatment discusses Swahili recorded history as an integral part of their rich tradition and civilization. He clears up past confusions and mistaken assumptions without trying to define a single Swahili identity. His lucid approach unravels contradictions about Swahili being merchants and yet fishermen, who live in both cities as well as small villages, and who reckon various kinds of kinship and marriage. Swahili are often considered by non-Swahili as being both Africans and Arabs, but Middleton shows that they remain African despite having long adopted Islam and many aspects of Arab and Asian cultures.