Islam In German East Africa, 1885-1918: A Genealogy Of Colonial Religion (Cambridge Imperial And Post-Colonial Studies)

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.

• | Author: Jörg Haustein
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 451 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031274229
• | ISBN-13: 9783031274220