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Author Ahmed, Chanfi, author.

Title Preaching Islamic revival in East Africa / by Chanfi Ahmed
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages)
Contents The missions of conversion to Islam, or daʻwa: the meaning of a concept -- The Islamization of East Africa during the period of European penetration: an overview -- Former institutions and agents of Islamic conversion and daʻwa: the Sūfī Ṭuruq -- New institutions and agents of Islamic conversion and daʻwa: Islamic NGOs and Muslim institutions of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The role of Kiswahili in the work of evangelization and Islamization in East Africa -- The resurgence of claims of the autonomy and Islamic identity of Mwambao, the coastal area of Kenya -- Conclusion
Summary "This book deals with the new dynamics of Islam in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Comoros) and its attempt to expand through various missionary activities"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202)
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Subject Islam -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Islam -- Missions -- Educational work -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Islam and politics -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Muslim missionaries -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Muslims -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Conversion -- Islam.
History.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Conversion -- Islam
Islam
Islam and politics
Islam -- Missions -- Educational work
Muslim missionaries
Muslims
Eastern Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781527512146
1527512142