Muslim Societies in African HistoryCambridge University Press, 12 de jan. de 2004 - 220 páginas 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 Medina in 622. He concludes with chapters on the Mahdi and Khalifa of the Sudan and the Murid Sufi movement that originated in Senegal, and reflections in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001. |
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Abu Bakr African History African Muslims Akan Aksum al-Islam Almoravids Amadu Bamba Arabian peninsula Arabic army Asante became began Berber British Buganda caliph called capital century C.E. Christian cities clerics coast court created culture Dar al-Islam Dar al-Kufr developed discussed in Chapter dominant early East African Egypt Ethiopia European faith Figure French Gobir Hausa Hausaland Hijaz hijra identity Islamic world jihad Kabaka king kingdom Kumasi language late nineteenth century leaders lived Mahdi Mali marabout Mawlay Mecca Medina Mediterranean Middle East missionaries Moroccan Morocco mosque Muhammad Murid Muslim Muslim community Muslim societies Muslim space Mutesa Nile non-Muslim North Africa pagan palace pilgrimage prayer Prophet Qadiriyya Quran regime religion religious rulers ruling classes Sahara Sahel scholars Senegal Shaikh Sharia slave trade slavery Sokoto Sokoto Caliphate Songhay Sub-Saharan Africa Sudan Sudanese Sufi Sufi orders Sufism sultan Suwarian tradition Swahili took Umayyad Uthman dan Fodio West Africa Western