Muslim Ethiopia : the Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism / Patrick Desplat and Terje Ostebo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desplat, Patrick.

Østebø, Terje

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Ethiopia.

Islam.

Muslims--Ethiopia.

Muslims.

Identity politics--Ethiopia.

Identity politics.

Religion.

Ethiopia--Religion.

Ethiopia.

Physical Description:

vi, 267 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism is a pioneering collection of studies on Islam in contemporary Ethiopia. This volume challenges the popular notion of a "Christian Ethiopia" imagined as the centuries-old, never-colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity. In addition to marginalizing Muslim cultures and societies within Ethiopia, this notion has also excluded Muslims from public discourse and led to the neglect of Islam in Ethiopian studies. This is strikingly at odds with the country's cultural and historical reality, as Muslims constitute a significant part of the population and have contributed significantly to its development. Muslim Ethiopia develops this overlooked nexus of Ethiopian and Islamic Studies, while broadening our understandings of Muslims in Africa as a whole. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism / Patrick Desplat & Terje Ostebo

Muslim struggle for recognition in contemporary Ethiopia / Dereje Feyissa

Being young, being Muslim in Bale / Terje Ostebo

Among Muslim Afar pastoralists / Simone Rettberg

The formation of trans-religious pilgrimage centers in southeast Ethiopia: Sitti Momina and the Faraqasa connection / Minako Ishihara

The gendering dimension in Sufi contestation of religious orthodoxy: representations of women in a Sufi shrine at Tiru Sina / Meron Zeleke

Negotiating wali venerating practices in Ethiopia: Islamic reformist movements and identity politics in Siltie zone / Zerihun A. Woldeselassie

Against Wahabism? Islamic reform ambivalence and sentiments of loss in Harar / Patrick Desplat

Islam, war and peace in the Horn of Africa / Haggai Erlich

Transborder Islamic activism in the Horn of Africa: the case of tadamun

an Ethiopian Muslim brotherhood? / Stig Jarle Hansen

Ahlu sunna wa l-jama'a in Somalia / Roland Marchal and Zakaria M. Sheekh.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

1137325291

9781137325297

OCLC:

815043913

Publisher Number:

99953842582