Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Online ISBN:
9780191734182
Print ISBN:
9780197264270
Publisher:
British Academy
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Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Felicitas Becker
Felicitas Becker
Assistant Professor, African History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
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Published:
11 September 2008
Online ISBN:
9780191734182
Print ISBN:
9780197264270
Publisher:
British Academy
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Becker, Felicitas, Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000 (London , 2008; online edn, British Academy Scholarship Online, 31 Jan. 2012), https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264270.001.0001, accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This book looks at the Muslims in Mainland Tanzania, as well as what people in Southeast Tanzania understood by Islam, or by being Muslim, and what they sought to attain by becoming Muslim. This question may seem contrived: the personal reasons why a set of people, most of whom are now dead, changed their religious allegiance are unrecoverable. The most fundamental problem lies with the timing of the expansion of Islam. It is clearly shown that certain challenges and processes recurred over time in different guises.
Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Migration, trade, and religious change at the onset of colonialism, 1890–1905
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2
From Muslim big men to rural waalimu, 1905–1927
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3
Teachers, elders and shehe: how Islam came to the villages
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4
The growth of rural madrasa
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5
The book, the wilderness, and the family: Islamic doctrine and African practice
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6
The heritage of slavery and the educationalist shehe of the Sufi brotherhoods
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7
New horizons: the era of independence, 1954–67
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8
Internal debates and international influences: the rise of Islamic radicalism in the 1990s
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Conclusion
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End Matter
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