Author : Terje Østebø
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137322098
Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
Author : Hussein Ahmed
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,55 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004492283
While presenting an historical account of the internal dynamics of Islam in Wallo, Ethiopia, with particular emphasis on the modes of its introduction and dissemination, and on its relationship with the Ethiopian state and regional power structure, this book describes the background to, and manifestations of, the revival and consolidation of Islam in the region in the nineteenth century by assessing the role of Muslim scholars, traders and chiefs in that process. It also traces the origin of the tradition of Islamic renewal and reform, and analyzes the response of Wallo Muslim religious intellectuals to the attempt of the Ethiopian Christian monarchs of the period to bring about the political unification of the kingdom by imposing a policy of religious coercion on the Muslims of Wallo. Based largely on hitherto-untapped oral and written indigenous sources, and supplemented by external archival and documentary evidence, the study is aimed at redressing the historiographical and interpretive imbalance embedded in the scholarly, institutional and popular perceptions on Islam in Ethiopia.
Author : J. S. Trimingham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780415446730
Originally published in 1952.This volume examines the impact of Islam upon the nomadic and settled North-East Africa, the reactions of the population to that impact and the existing state of Islam professed by those who have been won over to it. It pays particular attention to Ethiopia and the effect of Islam upon it and the centuries of conflict between Christianity and Islam.
Author : Terje Østebø
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108839681
Discussing an armed insurgency in Ethiopia (1963-1970), this study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion and ethnicity.
Author : Haggai Erlich
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 31,85 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626371934
What is the significance of Islam¿s growing strength in Ethiopia? And what is the impetus for the Saudi financing of hundreds of new mosques and schools in the country, the establishment of welfare organizations, and the spread of the Arabic language? Haggai Erlich explores the interplay of religion and international politics as it has shaped the development of modern Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. Tracing Saudi-Ethiopian relations from the 1930s to the present, Erlich highlights the nexus of concrete politics and the conceptual messages of religion. His fresh approach encompasses discussions of the options and dilemmas facing Ethiopians, both Christians and Muslims, across multiple decades; the Saudis¿ nuanced conceptualization of their Islamic ¿self¿ in contrast to Christian and Islamic ¿others¿; and the present confrontation between Ethiopia¿s apolitical Islam and Wahhabi fundamentalism. It also provides new perspectives on both the current dilemmas of the Wahhabi kingdom and the global implications of the evolving Saudi-Ethiopian relationship.
Author : Ulrich Braukämper
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825856717
Studies on Islam in Ethiopia have long been neglected although Islam is the religious confession of almost half of the Ethiopian population. The essays focus on the following topics: Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia between the 13th and 16th Century * Notes on the Islamization and the Muslim Shrines of the Harar Plateau * The Sanctuary of Shaikh Husayn and the Oromo-Somali Connections in Bale * The Islamization of the Arsi-Oromo; Medieval Muslim Survivals as a Stimulating Factor in the Re-Islamization of Southeastern Ethiopia. The essays are based on the study of written records and on field research in southern parts of the country carried out during the first half of the 1970s.
Author : Terje Østebø
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004217495
The political transition in 1991 and the new regime’s policy towards the ethnic and religious diversity in Ethiopia have contributed to increased activities from various Islamic reform movements. Among these, we find the Salafi movement which expanded rapidly throughout the 1990s, particularly in the Oromo-speaking south-eastern parts of the country. This book sheds light on the emergence and expansion of Salafism in Bale. Focusing on the diversified body of situated actors and their role in the process of religious change, it discusses the early arrival of Salafism in the late 1960s, follows it through the Marxist period (1974-1991) before discussing the rapid expansion of the movement in the 1990s. The movement’s dynamics and the controversies emerging as a result of the reforms are discussed, particularly with reference to different understandings of sources for religious knowledge and the role of Islamic literacy.
Author : Ḥagai Erlikh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781588267139
Can Christianity and Islam coexist? Or are Muslims and Christians destined to delegitimize and even demonize each other? Tracing the modern history of the region where the two religions first met, and where they are engaged now in active confrontation, this title finds legacies of tolerance, as well as militancy.
Author : Günther Schlee
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1847010466
A study of the longue durée of a marginalized part of northern Kenya, examining the process of territorialization and the role of Islam in politicizing ethnicity. The recent ethnic violence in Kenya has been preceded by a process of territorialization and politicization of ethnicity. This study examines a marginalized part of Kenya, the semi-arid north inhabited by pastoralists of three language groups - speakers of Oromo, Somali, and Rendille. It spans different periods of time, from early processes of ethnic differentiation between groups, through the colonial period when differences were reflected in administrative policies, to recent times, when global minority discourses, particularly those related to Islam, are tapped by local political agents and ethnic entrepreneurs. A companion volume to Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, this book is based on over thirty-four years of field research and synthesizes findings from history and political anthropology. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.
Author : Nomikos Michael Vaporis
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A collection of papers presented at the Orthodox -- Muslim dialogue held at Holy Cross.
