Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)

Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940)
Title Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940) PDF eBook
Author Anne K. Bang
Publisher BRILL
Pages 241
Release 2014-08-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004276548

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In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.

Practices of Islamic Preaching

Practices of Islamic Preaching
Title Practices of Islamic Preaching PDF eBook
Author Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 340
Release 2023-08-07
Genre
ISBN 3110788365

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Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World

Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World
Title Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World PDF eBook
Author Mahmood Kooria
Publisher Routledge
Pages 197
Release 2021-09-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000435350

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This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts. With a focus on the production and transmission of Islamic law in the Indian Ocean, the chapters in this book draw from and add to recent discourses on the legal histories and anthropologies of the Indian Ocean rim as well as to the conversations on global Islamic circulations. By doing so, this book argues for the importance of Islamic legal thoughts and practices of the so-called "peripheries" to the core and kernel of Islamic traditions and the urgency of addressing their long-existing role in the making of the historical and human experience of the religion. Islamic law was and is not merely brought to, but also produced in the Indian Ocean world through constant and critical engagements. The book takes a long-term and transregional perspective for a better understanding of the ways in which the oceanic Muslims have historically developed their religious, juridical and intellectual traditions and continue to shape their lives within the frameworks of their religion. Transregional and transdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be of interest to scholars of Islamic Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Legal History and Legal Anthropology, Area Studies of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa.

Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa

Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa
Title Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa PDF eBook
Author Terje Østebø
Publisher Routledge
Pages 417
Release 2021-12-20
Genre Religion
ISBN 1000471721

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Bringing together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines, this handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. Challenging the portrayal of African Muslims as passive recipients of religious impetuses arriving from the outside, this book shows how the continent has been a site for the development of rich Islamic scholarship and religious discourses. Over the course of the book, the contributors reflect on: The history and infrastructure of Islam in Africa Politics and Islamic reform Gender, youth, and everyday life for African Muslims New technologies, media, and popular culture. Written by leading scholars in the field, the contributions examine the connections between Islam and broader sociopolitical developments across the continent, demonstrating the important role of religion in the everyday lives of Africans. This book is an important and timely contribution to a subject that is often diffusely studied, and will be of interest to researchers across religious studies, African studies, politics, and sociology.

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World
Title Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World PDF eBook
Author Michael Pearson
Publisher Springer
Pages 342
Release 2016-02-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137566248

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Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.

Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean

Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean
Title Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 333
Release 2018-06-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004365982

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The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude. Contributors are: Katrin Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim, Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.

Buying Time

Buying Time
Title Buying Time PDF eBook
Author Thomas F. McDow
Publisher Ohio University Press
Pages 535
Release 2018-05-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0821446096

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In Buying Time, Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain how, in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. That vibrant and enormously influential swath extended from the desert fringes of Arabia to Zanzibar and the Swahili coast and on to the Congo River watershed. In the half century before European colonization, Africans and Arabs from coasts and hinterlands used newfound sources of credit to seek out opportunities, establish new outposts in distant places, and maintain families in a rapidly changing economy. They used temporizing strategies to escape drought in Oman, join ivory caravans in the African interior, and build new settlements. The key to McDow’s analysis is a previously unstudied trove of Arabic business deeds that show complex variations on the financial transactions that underwrote the trade economy across the region. The documents list names, genealogies, statuses, and clan names of a wide variety of people—Africans, Indians, and Arabs; men and women; free and slave—who bought, sold, and mortgaged property. Through unprecedented use of these sources, McDow moves the historical analysis of the Indian Ocean beyond connected port cities to reveal the roles of previously invisible people.