Muslim Societies in African History

Name: Muslim Societies in African History
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ISBN: 9780521533669

ISBN-10: 052153366X

ISBN-13: 9780521533669

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Robinson, Martin Klein

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Examining a series of processes (Islamization, Arabization, Africanization) and case studies from North, West and East Africa, this book gives snapshots of Muslim societies in Africa over the last millennium. In contrast to traditions which suggest that Islam did not take root in Africa, author David Robinson shows the complex struggles of Muslims in the Muslim state of Morocco and in the Hausaland region of Nigeria. He portrays the ways in which Islam was practiced in the 'pagan' societies of Ashanti (Ghana) and Buganda (Uganda) and in the ostensibly Christian state of Ethiopia - beginning with the first emigration of Muslims from Mecca in 615 CE, well before the foundational hijra to…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English




Introduction: the Foundations



Muhammad and the birth of Islam



The basic institutions of the faith



Explorations in the Islamic Identities of Africa



The Islamization of Africa



The Africanization of Islam



Muslim identity and the Slave Trades



Western views of Africa and Islam



Extended Case Studies: Muslim Societies in Old Nation-States of Africa



Morocco: Muslims in a Muslim nation



Ethiopia Muslims in a Christian Nation



Muslim Societies in Pre-Colonial Africa



Asante and Kumasi: a Muslim minority in a sea of Paganism



Sokoto and Hausaland: Jihad within the Dar al-Islam



Muslim Societies in Colonial Africa



Buganda: religious competition for the Kingdom



The Mahdi and competing imperialisms



The Muridiyya: a Sufi Brotherhood under French Colonial rule


Conclusion