Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (C.1880-1940)

Ripples of Reform
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-25134-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Islam in Africa

In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bang, Anne K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sufis
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration, Quotes and Dates

1 Introduction
The Ripple and the Reef: Perspectives and Objectives

2 The Luminescent Sun and Brilliant Rays of Light: Towards a Geography of Reform
Towards a Geography of Reform: A Web of Centres
The Haramayn: The Blessed and the Radiant
The Hadramawt: Home of the Luminescent, Encompassing Mid-Day Sun
Zanzibar: The Brilliant Star of East Africa
Lamu and the Riyadha Mosque
The Comoro Islands: Moon Islands in a Sea of Sun
Rays of Light and Hierarchies

3 The Branches of the Qadiriyya and the Shadhiliyya in Northern Mozambique: Silsilas to the South
The Tariqa Qadiriyya in Zanzibar
The Qadiriyya in Mozambique: Multiple Routes South
Muhammad Al-Ma'ruf and the Spread of the Shadhiliyya in Northern Mozambique
The Emergence of Sufi Orders in Norhern Mozambique

4 The Shadhiliyya in Northern Madagascar c. 1890–1940: The Planting of a Garden and the Growing of Malagasy Roots
Islam in Northern Madagascar
Family, Religion and Trade on Madagascar: East African-Comorian Networks and the Shadhiliyya
Ahmad al-Kabir: The Great Shaykh of the Tariqa Shadhiliyya of Northern Madagascar
Reform and the Emergence of a Malagasy Sufi Order

5 The Cape Town Muslim Community and East African Sufi Networks: Beyond the Monsoon
Islam in South Africa and Cape Town
Muhammad Salih Hendricks: From Periphery to Centre to the Network
Other Travellers – More Da'wa

6 Travelling Texts: Arabic Literate Learning in Coastal East Africa, c. 1860–1930
Textual Transmission and Religious Authority
Book Knowledge in the Age of Manuscripts: 1860s into the Twentieth Century
From Manuscript to Print: Parallel or Converging Authorities?
Manuscripts, Printed Books and Religious Authority

7 Ritual of Reform – Reform of a Ritual: Ratib al-Haddad in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1880–1940
Ratib Al-Haddad as Sufi Reform
Ratib al-Haddad in East and South Africa
The Ratib in Writing: Textualization of Charisma
The Ratib Performed: Reform of a Ritual?
The Ratib al-Haddad: New Reform of a Reformist Ritual?

8 Consolidating the Network: Waqf Distribution and New Organizations in Zanzibar, c. 1900–1930
Scholarly Networks and the Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs”, c. 1880–1940
Waqf Distribution within Intellectual Networks: Consolidating Reform through Waqf Funds
From Networks to Organizations: The Rise of the Jam'iyya, c. 1900–1930

9 Conclusions
On Ripples and Reefs: Agency in a Translocal World
Sufi Reform on the Move
The Ecumene that wasn’t – yet?

Appendix 1
The Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs” Contained in ZA-HD10

Sources and Bibliography
Arabic Textual Material
Arabic Manuscript Sources (Listed)
Archival Sources
Oral Sources/Interviews
Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne K. Bang, Ph.D. (2000) is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She has published widely on the Islamic history of East Africa, including the monograph Sufis and Scholars of the Sea (Routledge, 2003).