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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Felicitas Becker; British Academy. |
ISBN: | 9780191734182 0191734187 |
OCLC Number: | 821725488 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 364 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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. |
Series Title: | British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph. |
Responsibility: | by Felicitas Becker. |
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This is a highly valuable book, which covers a lot of ground and is based on extensive archival research, including German colonial and missionary records. It also draws extensively on oral history - including about 300 interviews with local informants. * Preben Kaarsholm, Journal of Africa * Becker gives a thorough and balanced analysis... This book is quite an achievement and will be a great resource for both students and academics alike in this field of study. * Naasiha Abrahams. * Felicitas Becker gives us a balanced understanding of the rise of Islamic radicalism among the Tanzanian Muslim youth * Mohamed Bakari, Journal of Islamic Studies * a very informative study which sheds light on both the cultural and historical factors that have informed teh spread of Islam in rural and urban locations in the region. * Abdullah Sahin, Muslim World Book Review * Read more...

