Towards jihad?: Muslims and politics in postcolonial Mozambique

Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim politics always point towards jihad? Eric Morier-Geno...

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1. Verfasser: Morier-Genoud, Éric (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim politics always point towards jihad? Eric Morier-Genoud examines the period immediately after independence, when the state engaged in anticlericalism; he then moves across the decades to the 2000s, when the ruling party and the opposition alike courted Muslims for electoral purposes, before reaching the 2010s, when tensions between 'mosque and state' returned
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 240 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780197782804
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197769348.001.0001