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Book Holymen of the Blue Nile

Download or read book Holymen of the Blue Nile written by Neil McHugh and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holymen of the Blue Nile

Download or read book Holymen of the Blue Nile written by Neil McHugh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holymen of the Blue Nile

Download or read book Holymen of the Blue Nile written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holymen of the Blue Nil

Download or read book Holymen of the Blue Nil written by Neil MacHugh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holymen of the Blue Nile

Download or read book Holymen of the Blue Nile written by Neil McHugh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islam  Sectarianism  and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya

Download or read book Islam Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya written by Gabriel Warburg and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriel Warburg contends that efforts in Sudan to enforce an Islamic state and an Islamic constitution on a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society have led to prolonged civil war, endless military coups, and political, social, and economic bankruptcy. He analyzes the history of Sudan's Islamic politics to illuminate current conflicts in the region. The revolt in 1881 was led by a Mahdi who came to renew and purify Islam. It was in effect an uprising against a corrupt Islamic regime, the largely alien Turco-Egyptian ruling elite. The Mahdiyya was therefore an anti-colonial movement, seeking to liberate Sudan from alien rule and to unify the Muslim Umma, and it later evolved into the first expression of Sudanese nationalism and statehood. Post-independence Islamic radicalism, in turn, can be viewed against the background of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1899-1956). It also thrived as a result of the resurgence of Islam since the mid-1960s, when Nasserism and other popular ideologies were swept aside. Finally, Sudan has emerged as the center of militancy in Sunni Islam since June 1989, when a group of radical Islamic officers, under the guidance of Dr. Hassan al-Turabi and the NIF, assumed power.

Book Public Documents from Sinnar

Download or read book Public Documents from Sinnar written by Jay Spaulding and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of Arabic and English translations illuminates the changes of eighteenth-century government in the northern Nile Valley of Sudan, and provides reliable chronological points of reference for the history of the region. The documents offered in this volume, including charter grants of land and privilege, administrative letters, judicial rulings, and other official government records, date form 1702 to 1820. This period marks the apogee of the wealth, power, and geographical extent of the realm of the Funji kings of Sinnar who reigned over much of the Sudan from about 1500 until the Turkish colonial conquest of 1821. These records document with concrete precision and eloquence the dissolution of the agrarian social order of an old African kingdom under the corroding influence of intrusive Mediterranean commercial practices and culture. They reveal the Sudan's legacy of a traditionally weak government vulnerable to manipulation or conquest by foreign powers and a divided and impoverished society dominated by a minority of urban interests.

Book Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa

Download or read book Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North Africa written by Dawn Chatty and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly volume devoted to an understanding of contemporary nomadic and pastoral societies in the Middle East and North Africa. This volume recognizes the variable mobile quality of the ways of life of these societies which persist in accommodating the ‘nation-state’ of the 20th and 21st century but remain firmly transnational and highly adaptive. Composed of four sections around the theme of contestation it includes examinations of contested authority and power, space and social transformation, development and economic transformation, and cultures and engendered spaces.

Book Handbuch der Orientalistik

Download or read book Handbuch der Orientalistik written by John O. Hunwick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought

Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought written by Gerhard Bowering and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2012, the year 1433 of the Muslim calendar, the Islamic population throughout the world was estimated at approximately a billion and a half, representing about one-fifth of humanity. In geographical terms, Islam occupies the center of the world, stretching like a big belt across the globe from east to west."--P. vii.

Book The Cloth of Many Colored Silks

Download or read book The Cloth of Many Colored Silks written by John O. Hunwick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.

Book Beyond Jihad

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  • Author : Lamin Sanneh
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2016-08-19
  • ISBN : 0199351627
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Beyond Jihad written by Lamin Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change. At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

Book The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State

Download or read book The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State written by Kim Searcy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state.

Book American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations on the Arab World written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Middle East  Abstracts and Index

Download or read book The Middle East Abstracts and Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: