British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar

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Titre
British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar
Date
2023
Dans
Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies
Résumé
On October 15, 1912, a little over twenty years after Zanzibar was declared a British protectorate, Theodore Burtt, a Christian missionary in Pemba, a sister island to Zanzibar, sent a letter to the British consul general in Stone Town, Zanzibar’s capital. The letter addressed two concerns: how to manage marriage among “native” Christian converts and whether the marriages conducted by the mission were valid under “Mohammedan law” (ZNA AB 30/7). But the main concern of the mission, according to the letter writer, was that the “present lawless promiscuous cohabitation between the sexes, and separation again, often for trifling causes and...
Editeur
Cornell University Press
Place
Cornell
Langue
eng
pages
57-66
ISBN
978-1-5017-7239-9

“British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar”, Cornell University Press, 2023, bibliographie, consulté le 7 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23615

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