Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of ReformIn the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction | 1 |
Towards a Geography of Reform | 20 |
Silsilas to the South | 47 |
The Planting of a Garden and the Growing of Malagasy Roots | 72 |
Beyond the Monsoon | 90 |
Arabic Literate Learning in Coastal East Africa c 18601930 | 108 |
Rātib alḤaddād in the Southwestern Indian Ocean c 18801940 | 143 |
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A.K. Bang Abd al—Rahman Abd Allah Abi Bakr Abū l-Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Amawī al-Ḥibshī al-Maʿrūf Alawi Allāh Bā Kathīr Antankarana Arabic authority Azzawiya B.G. Martin Brawanese Burhān Mkelle Cape Muslim Cape Town Chapter colonial Comorian Comoro Islands copy daʿwa dhikr Diego Suarez East Africa example global Grande Comore Gueunier Ḥaḍramawt Ḥaḍramī Ḥaramayn Hasan ijāza Ilha de Mozambique Indian Ocean Islamic Jamal al-Layl khalīfa L.J.K. Bonate Lamu late nineteenth Loimeier Madagascar Malagasy manuscript Mawlid Mecca Muslim community nineteenth century northern Madagascar northern Mozambique printed qāḍī Qadiri Qādiriyya Qullatayn Quran Rātib al-Ḥaddād recited reform reformist religious ritual Riyadha Mosque Salafi Sayyid Saʿīd scholars Shādhilī Shādhiliyya Sharifa Shatta Shaykh Shaykh Uways silsila social southwestern Indian Ocean Sufi Sufi orders Sufism Sultan Sumayṭ Swahili ṭarīqa teachers teaching textual tion tradition Umar Wakf Commission waqf Zanzibar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ʿAbd Allāh Bā ʿAlawī ʿAlawiyya ʿAlī ʿĪsā ʿUmar ʿUthmān