Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918

A Genealogy of Colonial Religion

Jörg Haustein author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:15th Jul '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918 cover

In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.


ISBN: 9783031274220

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435 pages

2023 ed.