Overview
- Provides an in-depth analysis of German colonial Islam politics
- Offers a new approach to a post-colonial historiography of Islam in Africa
- Enables new insights into religion, ethnicity, language, law, and education in colonial Tanzania
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Race and Language: Arab and Swahili Islam
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Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German “Civilising Mission”
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Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law
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Political Islam: The Making of “Islamic Danger”
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Conclusion
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918
Book Subtitle: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion
Authors: Jörg Haustein
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27423-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27422-0Published: 15 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27425-1Due: 15 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27423-7Published: 14 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 435
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Religion, Islam, History of Sub-Saharan Africa, History of Germany and Central Europe, African History