Sulayman b. Nasr al-Lamki and German colonial politics towards Muslim communities in German East Africa
Contenu
- Titre
- Sulayman b. Nasr al-Lamki and German colonial politics towards Muslim communities in German East Africa
- Auteur
- Pesek, Michael
- Date
- 2002
- Dans
- Islam in Africa
- Résumé
- this paper reconstructs the ambiguous and often problematical relationship between the German colonisers and African Muslims in the context of the event labelled by the colonial administration as the “Mecca letter affair”. The author’s main focus is the production of colonial knowledge about the Muslim societies. Muslim elites were substantially involved in this production. Aware of the German colonisers’ insufficient knowledge of the Muslim societies, members of the Muslim elites like Sulaymān b. Nāṣir used the “Mecca letter affair” to manipulate German politics for their own aimes, which at the time concerned the weakening of the influence of the brotherhoods, which threatened the elites’ monopoly of religious knowledge and hegemony.
- Editeur
- Lit Verlag
- Place
- Münster
- Sujet
- Zanzibar
- Langue
- eng
- pages
- 211-229
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