Islam and Politics
In: Teaching Political Science, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 158-170
290014 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: Teaching Political Science, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 158-170
In: MERIP reports: Middle East research & information project, Heft 120, S. 26
In: Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 187-194
ISSN: 1474-0680
In: Issue: a journal of opinion, Band 13, S. 20-25
The role of Islam in West African politics goes back to the beginnings of the encounter between Islamic culture and traditional African political leadership in the medieval period. When Arabo-Berber culture arrived in the West Soudan, African rulers in Ghana, Soudan, and other smaller kingdoms of the time were very much influenced by their traditional African world view. According to this world view, rulers were thought to be a link between the living and the dead, on the one hand, and between the temporal and the spiritual on the other. Indeed, it is because of this fusion of politics and primordial religion in the old Africa that the well-known American student of African religions, James W. Fernandez, wrote in the early 1960s that the "African, it can be argued, inherited a traditional disposition to shift back and forth from a political to a religious mode of address."
In: Middle Eastern studies, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 131-157
ISSN: 1743-7881
Focusing on the interplay of religion, society, and politics, August Nimtz examines the role of sufi tariqas (brotherhoods) in Tanzania, where he observed an African Muslim society at first hand. Nimtz opens this book with a historical account of Islam in East Africa, and in subsequent chapters analyzes the role of tariqas in Tanzania and, more specifically, in the coastal city of Bagamoyo. Using a conceptual framework derived from contemporary political theories on social cleavages and individual interests. Nimtz explains why the tariqa is important in the process of political change. The fundamental cleavage in Muslim East Africa, he notes, is that of "whites" versus blacks. Nimtz contends that the tariqas, in serving the interest of blacks (that is, Africans), became in turn vehicles for the mass mobilization of African Muslims during the anti-colonial struggle. In Bagamoyo he finds a similar process and, in addition, reveals that the tariqas have served African interests in opposition to those of "whites" because of the individual benefits they provide. At the same time, Nimtz concludes, the social structure of East African Muslim society has ensured that Africans would be particularly attracted to those benefits. This work will interest both observers of African political development and specialists in the Islamic studies
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 51, Heft 4, S. 692
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 362
In: Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 66-68
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 421-422
ISSN: 1744-9324
In: African and Asian Studies, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 131-132
ISSN: 1569-2108
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 891-895
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: Journal of Asian and African studies: JAAS, Band 18, Heft 1-2, S. 131-132
ISSN: 1745-2538
In: American political science review, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 1082-1083
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Contributions to Indian sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 142-171
ISSN: 0973-0648