Islamic Sufi networks in the western Indian Ocean (c. 1880-1940) : ripples of reform /
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| Author / Creator: | Bang, Anne K., author. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Brill, [2014] ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : color illustrations, map |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa Islam in Africa. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235790 |
| Summary: | In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : color illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004276543 9004276548 9789004251342 9004251340 |