Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918
A Genealogy of Colonial Religion
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.
| Autor: | Haustein, Jörg |
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| ISBN: | 9783031274251 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 435 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 15.07.2024 |
| Untertitel: | A Genealogy of Colonial Religion |
| Schlagworte: | Burundi Decolonisation Ethnicity German Islam politics German colonialism Islam Muslim identity Post-colonialism Rwanda Tanzania |
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