Islam in Uganda: the Muslim minority, nationalism & political power

Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no consensus as to who was responsible. In this book Joseph Kasule seeks to explain this by examining the colonial and postcolonial history of the Muslim minority and questions of Muslim identity within a non-Muslim...

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1. Verfasser: Kasule, Joseph 1982- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge James Currey 2023
Schriftenreihe:Religion in transforming Africa
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Zusammenfassung:Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no consensus as to who was responsible. In this book Joseph Kasule seeks to explain this by examining the colonial and postcolonial history of the Muslim minority and questions of Muslim identity within a non-Muslim state. Challenging prevalent scholarship that has homogenized Muslims' political identity, Kasule demonstrates that Muslim responses to power have been varied and multiple. Beginning with the pre-colonial political community in Buganda, and Muteesa I's attempted Islamization of the country using Islam as a centralizing ideology, the author discusses how the political status of Islam and Muslims in Uganda has been defined under successive regimes
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 242 Seiten)
ISBN:9781787446809
DOI:10.1017/9781787446809

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