The global worlds of the Swahili

Lit

2006

x, 409 p.

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Bd. 26

Includes bibliographical references and index

9783825897697

1. Introduction : interfaces of Islam, identity and space in 19th- and 20th-century East Africa / Roman Loimeier and Rũdiger Seesemann. 2. Between two worlds : the littoral peoples of the Indian Ocean / Abdul Sheriff. 3. Globalization on the African Horn : Yemenis in southern Somalia and Ethiopia / Leif Manger. 4. From coastal to global : the erosion of the Swahili «paradox» / Farouk Topan. 5. Ustaarabu: a conceptual change in Tanganyikan newspaper : discourse in the 1920s / Katrin Bromber. 6. Art that dances and art that patrols : two groups in Zanzibar / David Parkin. 7. Coming to terms with «popular culture» : the ʻulamāʼ and the state in Zanzibar / Roman Loimeier. 8. The recent changes of the near year's festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar : a reinterpretation / Magnus Echtler. 9. The ludic side of Islam and its possible fate in Mayotte / Michael Lambek. 10. The dance that is not danced, the song that is not sung : Zanzibar women in the maulidi ritual / Hanni Nuotio. 11. Debating maulidi : ambiguities and transformations of Muslim identity along the Keynyan Swahili coast / Kai Kresse. 12. African Islam or Islam in Africa? Evidence from Kenya / Rüdiger Seesemann. 13. In his (Arab) Majesty's service : the career of a Somali scholar and diplomat in Nineteenth century Zanzibar / Valerie J. Hoffman. 14. Another scholar for all seasons? Ṭāhir b. Abī Bakr al-Amawī (1877–1938), qāḍī of Zanzibar, c. 1900–1933 / Anne K. Bang. 15. The ʻulamāʼ and the colonial state in the protectorate of Kenya. The appointment of Shaykh al-Islām al-Sharīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad Saggaf (1844–1922) and chief kadhi Sh. Muḥammad b. ʻUmar Bakore (c. 1932) / Hassan Mwakimako. 16. Networks of the Shādhiliyya Yashruṭiyya Sūfī Order in the East Africa / Chanfi Ahmad -- 17. The legacy of Qādirī scholars in Zanzibar / Amina Ameir Issa. 18. Sayyid Omar Abdallah (1918–1988) : the forgotten Muslim humanist and public intellectual / Mohamed Bakari

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