Islam and Colonialism
Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule
Biographical note
Muhammad S. Umar, Ph.D. (1997) Religion, Northwestern University is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has published extensively on Islam in Nigeria and West Africa in the leading journals of African Studies, Islamic Studies, and Comparative Religion.
Readership
All those interested in responses to colonialism in Africa and Muslim societies, history of Sokoto Caliphate and modern Nigeria, Islam and modernity, Islamic law reforms, comparative religion, and subaltern studies.
Reviews
[t]his study “has made important discoveries” ...which Africanists, Islamicists, and indeed avid explorers in social thoughts will find to be of immanent intellectual value.Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Journal of Oriental and African Studies
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Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in four African countries: in Sudan where total Sharīʿa was applied until recently; in Nigeria ...
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In this book Ousman Kobo provides a fresh understanding of the indigenous origins of Islamic reforms sympathetic to "Wahhabi" ideas in two West African countries, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and connects these movements to Muslim's search for religious purity in modern contexts.
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This book constitutes a seminal contribution to the fields of Islamic architectural history and gender studies. It is the first major empirical study of the history and current state of mosque building in Senegal and the first study of mosque space from a gender perspective.
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With a particular focus on the role of situated actors, this book sheds light on the emergence and expansion of Salafism in Bale, Ethiopia from the late 1960s, through the Marxist period (1974-1991) before discussing the rapid expansion and fragmentation of the movement in the 1990s until 2006.
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This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used ...
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The present volume examines the development of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial and colonial Zanzibar, focussing on patterns of cooperation between religious scholars and the British colonial state and highlights the effects of the Zanzibar revolution of 1964 on the development of ...
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The book uses the concept of the “Manichaean” geography of the colony, popularized by Fanon, to account for the virulent Islamic renewal in Sudan. In focusing on the Sudan judiciary, characterized by an unrelenting rift between its civil and Sharia divisions, the book examines the various forces ...
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This engaging collection of essays offers new insights into the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa in the past and closer to the present.
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