| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : color illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Islam in Africa
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Islam in Africa.
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| Summary |
In the period c. 1880-1940, Sufism in East Africa was the vehicle both for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. In this book, Sufi expansion is traced and situated within the wider framework of Islamic reform. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword and Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Figures; Note on Transliteration, Quotes and Dates; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Ripple and the Reef: Perspectives and Objectives; Chapter 2 The Luminescent Sun and Brilliant Rays of Light: Towards a Geography of Reform; Towards a Geography of Reform: A Web of Centres; The Hạramayn: The Blessed and the Radiant; The Hạdq̣amawt: Home of the Luminescent, Encompassing Mid-Day Sun; Zanzibar: The Brilliant Star of East Africa; Lamu and the Riyadha Mosque; The Comoro Islands: Moon Islands in a Sea of Sun. |
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Rays of Light and HierarchiesChapter 3 The Branches of the Qādiriyya and the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique: Silsilas to the South; The Tạrīqa Qādiriyya in Zanzibar; The Qādiriyya in Mozambique: Multiple Routes South; Muhạmmad Al-Maʻrūf and the Spread of the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique; The Emergence of Sufi Orders in Northern Mozambique; Chapter 4 The Shādhiliyya in Northern Madagascar c. 1890-1940: The Planting of a Garden and the Growing of Malagasy Roots; Islam in Northern Madagascar; Family, Religion and Trade on Madagascar: East African-Comorian Networks and the Shādhiliyya. |
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Ahṃad al-Kabīr: The Great Shaykh of the Tạrīqa Shādhiliyya of Northern MadagascarReform and the Emergence of a Malagasy Sufi Order; Chapter 5 The Cape Town Muslim Community and East African Sufi Networks: Beyond the Monsoon; Islam in South Africa and Cape Town; Muhammad Salih Hendricks: From Periphery to Centre to the Network; Other Travellers -- More Da''wa; Chapter 6 Travelling Texts: Arabic Literate Learning in Coastal East Africa, c. 1860-1930; Textual Transmission and Religious Authority; Book Knowledge in the Age of Manuscripts: 1860s into the Twentieth Century. |
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From Manuscript to Print: Parallel or Converging Authorities?Manuscripts, Printed Books and Religious Authority; Chapter 7 Ritual of Reform -- Reform of a Ritual: Rātib al-Hạddād in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1880-1940; Rātib al-Hạddād as Sufi Reform; Rātib al-Hạddād in East and South Africa; The Rātib in Writing: Textualization of Charisma; The Rātib Performed: Reform of a Ritual?; The Rātib al-Hạddād: New Reform of a Reformist Ritual?; Chapter 8 Consolidating the Network: Waqf Distribution and New Organizations in Zanzibar, c. 1900-1930. |
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Scholarly Networks and the Zanzibari "Meccan Waqfs", c. 1880-1940Waqf Distribution within Intellectual Networks: Consolidating Reform through Waqf Funds; From Networks to Organizations: The Rise of the Jamʻiyya, c. 1900-1930; Chapter 9 Conclusions; On Ripples and Reefs: Agency in a Translocal World; Sufi Reform on the Move; The Ecumene that wasn't -- yet?; Appendix 1 The Zanzibari "Meccan Waqfs" Contained in ZA-HD10; Sources and Bibliography; Arabic Textual Material; Arabic Manuscript Sources (Listed); Archival Sources; Oral Sources/Interviews; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sufism -- Africa, Southern -- History.
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Sufism. |
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Southern Africa. |
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History. |
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Sufism -- Madagascar -- History.
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Madagascar. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bang, Anne K. Islamic Sufi networks in the western Indian Ocean (c. 1880-1940). Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004251342 (DLC) 2014016837 (OCoLC)879329806 |
| ISBN |
9789004276543 (electronic book) |
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9004276548 (electronic book) |
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9789004251342 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004251340 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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