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Subject(s)

• Muslim converts—Tanzania—History [Browse]
• Muslims—Tanzania—History [Browse]
• Tanzania—Religion—History—19th century [Browse]
• Tanzania—Religion—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.

Contents

• Migration, trade, and religious change at the onset of colonialism, 1890-1905
• From Muslim big men to rural waalimu, 1905-27
• Teachers, elders and shehe: how Islam came to the villages
• The growth of rural madrasa
• The book, the wilderness, and the family: Islamic doctrine and African practice
• The heritage of slavery and the educationalist shehe of the Sufi brotherhoods
• New horizons: the era of independence, 1954-67
• Internal debates and international influences: the rise of Islamic radicalism in the 1990s.

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ISBN

• 9780197264270 (hbk.)
• 0197264271 (hbk.)

LCCN

2008300999

OCLC

214305867

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