British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar

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« British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar ». 2022. In Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies, 57-66. Cornell University Press, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/49242

Titre
British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar
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...
Est une partie de
Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies
Couverture spatiale
Cornell
Editeur
Cornell University Press
Date
2023
pages
57-66
Langue
eng
ISBN
978-1-5017-7239-9

« British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar ». 2022. In Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies, 57-66. Cornell University Press, bibliographie, consulté le 3 avril 2025, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/49242

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