Islam in German East Africa, 1885-1918 : a genealogy of colonial religion / Jörd Haustein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haustein, Jörg, 1975- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Africa, East.

Islam.

Colonies--Religious aspects.

Colonies.

Germany--Colonies--Africa, East--History--19th century.

Germany.

Germany--Colonies--Africa, East--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa

1.1 Previous Scholarship and Sources

1.2 Historical Overview and Chapter Plan

I. Race and Religion: Islam and the 'Arab Revolt'

2. Supplanting Arabdom: Race and Religion in the German Conquest

2.1 Islam and Arabdom in the Scramble for East Africa

2.2 The Arab Revolt in Imperial Reckoning

2.3 Insurgent Coalitions and Arab Identity

2.4 Islam and Arab Politics

3. Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language

3.1 Missionary Philology, Religion, and Romanisation

3.2 Kiswahili as Contested Language

3.3 The Christianisation of Kiswahil

3.4 Race and Language: Colonial Religion and the Disavowal of Hybridity

II. Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German Civilising Mission

4. Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom

4.1 The Quick Rise and Fall of the German Anti-Slavery Movement

4.2 Islam and Christianity in the Civilising Regime

4.3 Slavery in Missionary Campaigns and Parliamentary Debates

4.4 Bureaucratised Manumission and Coercive Labour Regimes

5. Educating for Islam? The German Government Schools and Christian Civilising

5.1 A School for Muslims in Tanga

.2 Secular Schools and Missionary Complaints

5.3 Repression and Simple Equivalences

5.4 Colonial Instrumentality: Islam, Made in the Image of Civilising

III. Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law

6. Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and Native Law

6.1 The Schutzgebietsgesetz of 1886

.2 Implementing a Racial Divide

6.3 Defining Religious Exemptions

6.4 Islam in the Colonial Practice of Native Law

7. Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship

7.1 German Orientalism and Islamic Jurisprudence

7.2 Native Law and Islamic Influence

7.3 Coloured Justice: The Irreality of Colonial Law

IV. Political Islam: The Making of Islamic Danger

8. Phantoms of Muslim Sedition: From Maji Maji to the Mecca Letters

8.1 Islam in the Maji Maji War

8.2 The Mecca Letter of 1908

8.3 The Liabilities of Islamic Danger

8.4 Sufi Piety and Government Interventions

9. Mainstreaming Islamic Danger: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance

9.1 German Scholars and the Geopolitics of Islam

9.2 Beckers Islamwissenschaft and the Colonial Congress of 1910

9.3 Colonial Press and Missionary Activism

9.4 Surveying Islam in East Africa

9.5 Political Islam: The Swan Song of Wartime Propaganda

10. Conclusion: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion

10.1 Pluralising Concepts: A Genealogy of Entangled Pretensions

10.2 Provincialising Europe: The Force of the Unrepresented

10.3 Rhizomatic Topography: The Sprawling Study of Islam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: HAUSTEIN, JORG. ISLAM IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA, 1885-1918.

ISBN:

9783031274237

3031274237

Publisher Number:

99994373832

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