| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Indian Ocean series
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Indian Ocean series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. |
| Contents |
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 The Al̄ Ba ̄(Banı)̄ Alawı ̄The H -- chapter 2 The Al̄ bin Sumayt / ˙ -- chapter 3 AHMAD B. ABI ̄BAKR B. SUMAYT -- chapter 4 H˙ADRAMAWT REVISITED -- chapter 5 Travelling years: Zanzibar-Istanbul-Cairo-Mecca- Java-Zanzibar, 1885-1888 -- chapter 6 IBNSUMAYT˙,THE 'ALAWIYYA AND THE SHAF̄I 'I 'ULAMA ̄OF ZANZIBAR c.1870-1925 -- chapter 7 Scriptural Islam in East Africa: The Alawiyya, Arabisation and the indigenisation of Islam, 1880-1925 -- chapter 8 THE WORK OF AQAD̄˙I -- chapter 9 EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS WITHIN THE COLONIAL STATE -- chapter 10 THE DEATH OF A GENERATION. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sufism -- Africa, East -- History.
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Sufism. |
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Africa, East. |
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History. |
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Sufis -- Africa, East -- Biography.
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Sufis. |
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Ulama -- Africa, East -- Biography.
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Ulama. |
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Nosairians -- Africa, East -- Biography.
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Nosairians. |
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Islamic sects -- Africa, East -- History.
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Islamic sects. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bang, Anne K. Sufis and scholars of the sea. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003045922 |
| ISBN |
0203592689 (electronic book) |
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9780203592687 (electronic book) |
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9780415317634 |
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0415317630 |
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9786610314591 |
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6610314594 |
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0415317630 (Cloth) |
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