Horn and Crescent

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Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900

Autor: Randall L. Pouwels

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Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press

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In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and...

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Autor

Randall L. Pouwels

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2002

Stránek

288

EAN

9780521523097

ISBN

0521523095

Enbook ID

02033554

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

474

Rozměry

152 x 228 x 18

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In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding intellectual needs and to meeting the opportunities presented by their physical and cultural environment. The culture and religion that developed were strong, rich, supple, self-assured. yet capable of accommodating change where it was unavoidable or preferable. All these characteristics were put to the test in the nineteenth century, when coastal peoples were subjected to intense Arabizing and Westernizing influences. Pouwels demonstrates how local people went on asserting their own traditions while assimilating what they chose from both worlds. East African Muslims, therefore faced the twentieth century divided on issues of local cultural autonomy and the need to conform to external cultural pressures.

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