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America and the production of Islamic truth in Uganda / Yahya Sseremba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sseremba, Yahya, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies on religion in Africa and the diaspora ; 10.
- Routledge studies on religion in Africa and the diaspora ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state--Uganda.
- Education and state.
- Islamic religious education--Uganda.
- Islamic religious education.
- Islamic education--Political aspects--Uganda.
- Islamic education.
- Islamic religious education--Political aspects--Uganda.
- United States--Foreign relations--Uganda.
- United States.
- Uganda--Foreign relations--United States.
- Uganda.
- Uganda--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Yahya Sseremba is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Islam and the limits of centralization in late precolonial Buganda
- 3. Exclusion by inclusion: The Ugandan state and the Muslim subject
- 4. The madrasa as a site of the war on terror
- 5. The diminishing Muslim domain: America's prescriptions for Islamic education reform
- 6. Question formulators and data collectors: the production of knowledge about the madrasa
- 7. Salafism: the boogeyman of the war on terror
- 8. Africa as conceptual model: Ugandan thought and contemporary Islamic reform
- 9. Conclusion: Islam and decolonization.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2023).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sseremba, Yahya. America and the production of Islamic truth in Uganda
- ISBN:
- 9781003356813
- 1003356818
- 9781000868586
- 1000868583
- 9781000868548
- 1000868540
- Publisher Number:
- 99993845174
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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