Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Contents |
1. Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa -- 1.1 Previous Scholarship and Sources -- 1.2 Historical Overview and Chapter Plan -- I. Race and Religion: Islam and the 'Arab Revolt' -- 2. Supplanting Arabdom: Race and Religion in the German Conquest -- 2.1 Islam and Arabdom in the Scramble for East Africa -- 2.2 The Arab Revolt in Imperial Reckoning -- 2.3 Insurgent Coalitions and Arab Identity -- 2.4 Islam and Arab Politics -- 3. Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language -- 3.1 Missionary Philology, Religion, and Romanisation -- 3.2 Kiswahili as Contested Language -- 3.3 The Christianisation of Kiswahil -- 3.4 Race and Language: Colonial Religion and the Disavowal of Hybridity -- II. Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German Civilising Mission -- 4. Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom -- 4.1 The Quick Rise and Fall of the German Anti-Slavery Movement -- 4.2 Islam and Christianity in the Civilising Regime -- 4.3 Slavery in Missionary Campaigns and Parliamentary Debates -- 4.4 Bureaucratised Manumission and Coercive Labour Regimes -- 5. Educating for Islam? The German Government Schools and Christian Civilising -- 5.1 A School for Muslims in Tanga -- .2 Secular Schools and Missionary Complaints -- 5.3 Repression and Simple Equivalences -- 5.4 Colonial Instrumentality: Islam, Made in the Image of Civilising -- III. Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law -- 6. Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and Native Law -- 6.1 The Schutzgebietsgesetz of 1886 -- .2 Implementing a Racial Divide -- 6.3 Defining Religious Exemptions -- 6.4 Islam in the Colonial Practice of Native Law -- 7. Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship -- 7.1 German Orientalism and Islamic Jurisprudence -- 7.2 Native Law and Islamic Influence -- 7.3 Coloured Justice: The Irreality of Colonial Law -- IV. Political Islam: The Making of Islamic Danger -- 8. Phantoms of Muslim Sedition: From Maji Maji to the Mecca Letters -- 8.1 Islam in the Maji Maji War -- 8.2 The Mecca Letter of 1908 -- 8.3 The Liabilities of Islamic Danger -- 8.4 Sufi Piety and Government Interventions -- 9. Mainstreaming Islamic Danger: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance -- 9.1 German Scholars and the Geopolitics of Islam -- 9.2 Beckers Islamwissenschaft and the Colonial Congress of 1910 -- 9.3 Colonial Press and Missionary Activism -- 9.4 Surveying Islam in East Africa -- 9.5 Political Islam: The Swan Song of Wartime Propaganda -- 10. Conclusion: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion -- 10.1 Pluralising Concepts: A Genealogy of Entangled Pretensions -- 10.2 Provincialising Europe: The Force of the Unrepresented -- 10.3 Rhizomatic Topography: The Sprawling Study of Islam |
Summary |
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jrg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germanys 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. Jrg 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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2023) |
Subject |
Islam -- Africa, East
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Colonies -- Religious aspects.
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Colonies -- Religious aspects
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German colonies
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Islam
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Colonies -- Africa, East -- History -- 19th century
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Germany -- Colonies -- Africa, East -- History -- 20th century
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Subject |
Africa, East
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
3031274237 |
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9783031274237 |
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