The Cosmopolitan Madrasa: Education and Islamic Reform in Zanzibar Between Africa and the Indian Ocean, Nineteenth Century—Present
Contenu
- Titre
- The Cosmopolitan Madrasa: Education and Islamic Reform in Zanzibar Between Africa and the Indian Ocean, Nineteenth Century—Present
- rédacteur
- Lovat, Terence
- Créateur
- Bolton, Caitlyn
- Sujet
- Enseignement -- Zanzibar
- Résumé
- The East African islands of Zanzibar have long been situated at the nexus of multiple geographies, empires, and projects of reform. The islands were once made the capital of the Omani sultanate, served as the East African entry point for European missionaries, explorers, and colonial projects, and have received and debated Islamic reformist projects originating from Egypt, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. As a cosmopolitan center of exchange between Africa and the Indian Ocean, Zanzibar’s discourses and practices of Islamic knowledge transmission reflect these overlapping projects of reform, including the rapid transformation and modernization of Islamic education in recent centuries. This chapter traces the history and philosophical foundations of Islamic education in Zanzibar, as situated within broader trends in Africa and the Indian Ocean. Enduring and reinventing itself under the influences of European colonialism, postindependence socialism and development, and Islamic reformist projects from the Gulf, Zanzibar’s cosmopolitan madrasa education evidences the adaptability of the Islamic discursive tradition across time and place.
- Est une partie de
- Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
- Date
- 2026
- Editeur
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Couverture spatiale
- Singapore
- pages
- 799-817
- ISBN
- 9789819546657 9789819546664
- doi
- 10.1007/978-981-95-4666-4_35
- Titre abrégé
- The Cosmopolitan Madrasa
- Langue
- eng
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