Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia

Revival, Reform and Reaction
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11909-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia

While presenting an historical account of the internal dynamics of Islam in Wallo, Ethiopia, with particular emphasis on the modes of its introduction and dissemination, and on its relationship with the Ethiopian state and regional power structure, this book describes the background to, and manifestations of, the revival and consolidation of Islam in the region in the nineteenth century by assessing the role of Muslim scholars, traders and chiefs in that process. It also traces the origin of the tradition of Islamic renewal and reform, and analyzes the response of Wallo Muslim religious intellectuals to the attempt of the Ethiopian Christian monarchs of the period to bring about the political unification of the kingdom by imposing a policy of religious coercion on the Muslims of Wallo.
Based largely on hitherto-untapped oral and written indigenous sources, and supplemented by external archival and documentary evidence, the study is aimed at redressing the historiographical and interpretive imbalance embedded in the scholarly, institutional and popular perceptions on Islam in Ethiopia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahmed, Hussein

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Hussein Ahmed, Ph.D. (1985) in Islamic History, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, is Associate Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has published numerous articles both on historical and contemporary Islam in Ethiopia including The Historiography of Islam in Ethiopia, (Journal of Islamic Studies, 3,1, (1992), Aksum in Muslim Historical Traditions, (Journal of Ethiopian Studies, XXIX,2, 1997), and Islamic Literature and Religious Revival in Ethiopia (1991-1994, (Islam et Sociétés au sud du Sahara, 12, 1998).