Islam in German East Africa, 1885-1918: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion
Haustein, Jörg
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2024-07-15
- 售價: $6,280
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,966
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 435
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031274253
- ISBN-13: 9783031274251
無法訂購
商品描述
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany's largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of 'Mohammedanism', often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.
作者簡介
Jörg Haustein is Associate Professor of World Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Previously, he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is a scholar of religion in Africa from the nineteenth century onward, specializing in Pentecostal Christianity, colonial Islam, and the intersection of religion and development.
