Muslims In Kenyan Politics

Author : Hassan J. Ndzovu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810130025
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Kenyan Politics written by Hassan J. Ndzovu and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that shapes Muslims’ understanding of Kenyan politics and government policies. Kenya’s Muslim population comprises ethnic Arabs, Indians, and black Africans, and its status has varied historically. Under British rule, an imposed racial hierarchy affected Muslims particularly, thwarting the development of a united political voice. Drawing on a broad range of interviews and historical research, Ndzovu presents a nuanced picture of political associations during the postcolonial period and explores the role of Kenyan Muslims as political actors.

Author : Arye Oded
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879297
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Politics in Kenya written by Arye Oded and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8 Muslims and the Law

Author : Hassan Mwakimako
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112402278
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mosques in Kenya written by Hassan Mwakimako and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Mosques in Kenya".

Author : B. Soares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607101
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa written by B. Soares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political liberalization and economic reform, the weakening of the state, and increased global interconnections have all had profound effects on Muslim societies and the practice of Islam in Africa. The contributors to this volume investigate and illuminate the changes that have occurred in Africa, through detailed case studies.

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128101
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria written by Roman Loimeier and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s and 1980s were times of political and religious turmoil in Nigeria, characterized by governmental upheaval, and aggressive confrontations between the Sufi brotherhoods and the Izala movement. In Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria, Roman Loimeier explores the intermeshing of religion in the struggle for political influence and preservation of the interests of Nigerian Muslims. Loimeier's careful scholarship combines astute readings of the work of previous scholars--both published and unpublished--with archival material and the findings of his own fieldwork in Nigeria. His work fills a substantial gap in contemporary Nigerian studies. This book provides invaluable and essential reading for serious students of Nigerian politics and of Islamic movements in Africa.

Author : Ousseina Alidou
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299294633
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya written by Ousseina Alidou and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in local, national, and international contexts, advancing reforms through their activism. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya draws on extensive interviews with six such women, revealing how their religious and moral beliefs shape reform movements that bridge ethnic divides and foster alliances in service of creating a just, multicultural, multiethnic, and multireligious democratic citizenship. Mwalim Azara Mudira opened a school of theology for Muslim women. Nazlin Omar Rajput of The Nur magazine was a pioneer in reporting on HIV/AIDS in the Muslim community. Amina Abubakar, host of a women's radio show, has publicly addressed the sensitive subject of sexual crimes against Muslim women. Two women who are members of parliament are creating new socioeconomic and political opportunities for girls and women, within a framework that still embraces traditional values of marriage and motherhood. Examining the interplay of gender, agency, and autonomy, Ousseina D. Alidou shows how these Muslim women have effected change in the home, the school, the mosque, the media, and more—and she illuminates their determination as actors to challenge the oppressive influences of male-dominated power structures. In looking at differences as opportunities rather than obstacles, these women reflect a new sensibility among Muslim women and an effort to redefine the meaning of women's citizenship within their own community of faith and within the nation.

Author : Kai Kresse
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037557
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience written by Kai Kresse and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience is an exploration of the ideas and public discussions that have shaped and defined the experience of Kenyan coastal Muslims. Focusing on Kenyan postcolonial history, Kai Kresse isolates the ideas that coastal Muslims have used to separate themselves from their "upcountry Christian" countrymen. Kresse looks back to key moments and key texts—pamphlets, newspapers, lectures, speeches, radio discussions—as a way to map out the postcolonial experience and how it is negotiated in the coastal Muslim community. On one level, this is a historical ethnography of how and why the content of public discussion matters so much to communities at particular points in time. Kresse shows how intellectual practices can lead to a regional understanding of the world and society. On another level, this ethnography of the postcolonial experience also reveals dimensions of intellectual practice in religious communities and thus provides an alternative model that offers a non-Western way to understand regional conceptual frameworks and intellectual practice.

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ISBN 13 : 9780230106635
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book RELIGION AND POLITCS IN KENYA written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : B. Knighton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230100511
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Politics in Kenya written by B. Knighton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the various political aspects of the Kenyan political mosaic during the time of Bishop David Gitari, later Archbishop 1997-2002. These essays focus on both this courageous man and the various aspects of the political mosaic in Kenya at that time to 2008, in an effort to bring out the religious dimensions of Kenyan and African politics.

Author : Robert Mason
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113752605X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Minority-State Relations written by Robert Mason and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the dominant types of relationships between Muslim minorities and states in different parts of the world, the challenges each side faces, and the cases and reasons for exemplary integration, religious tolerance, and freedom of expression. By bringing together diverse case studies from Europe, Africa, and Asia, this book offers insight into the nature of state engagement with Muslim communities and Muslim community responses towards the state, in turn. This collection offers readers the opportunity to learn more about what drives government policy on Muslim minority communities, Muslim community policies and responses in turn, and where common ground lies in building religious tolerance, greater community cohesion and enhancing Muslim community-state relations.