Könyv Horn and Crescent Randall L. Pouwels

Horn and Crescent

Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900

Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
23 174 Ft
In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and...

Információk a könyvről

Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2002
oldal
288
EAN
9780521523097
ISBN
0521523095
Enbook ID
02033554
Súly
474
Méretek
152 x 228 x 18

Teljes leírás

In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding intellectual needs and to meeting the opportunities presented by their physical and cultural environment. The culture and religion that developed were strong, rich, supple, self-assured. yet capable of accommodating change where it was unavoidable or preferable. All these characteristics were put to the test in the nineteenth century, when coastal peoples were subjected to intense Arabizing and Westernizing influences. Pouwels demonstrates how local people went on asserting their own traditions while assimilating what they chose from both worlds. East African Muslims, therefore faced the twentieth century divided on issues of local cultural autonomy and the need to conform to external cultural pressures.

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