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Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (C.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform

Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (C.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform

Bang, Anne K.

Hardcover

IslamGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004251340
ISBN13: 9789004251342
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 12 2014
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
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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