Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills

The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th Century Zanzibar
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17542-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 644 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Islam in Africa

The present volume is a pioneering study of the development of Islamic traditions of learning in 20th century Zanzibar and the role of Muslim scholars in society and politics, based on extensive fieldwork and archival research in Zanzibar (2001-2007). The volume highlights the dynamics of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar, focussing on the contribution of Sufi scholars (QÄdiriyya, Ê¿Alawiyya) as well as Muslim reformers (modernists, activists, aná¹£Är al-sunna) to Islamic education. It examines several types of Islamic schools (QurʾÄnic schools, madÄris and “Islamic institutes”) as well as the emergence of the discipline of “Islamic Religious Instruction” in colonial government schools. The volume argues that dynamics of cooperation between religious scholars and the British administration defined both form and content of Islamic education in the colonial period (1890-1963). The revolution of 1964 led to the marginalization of established traditions of Islamic education and encouraged the development of Muslim activist movements which have started to challenge state informed institutions of learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loimeier, Roman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Roman Loimeier, Ph.D (1990) and Habilitation (1997) in Islamic Studies, University of Bayreuth (Germany), taught at the Universities of Bayreuth, Göttingen and Florida (Gainesville, Center for African Studies), and is presently research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin). He has published extensively on Muslim societies in sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, Senegal, Nigeria and Tanzania.