| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Summary; Chapter One Introduction; Objectives; Setting the Scene; Telling a Story; Chapter Two Salafism, Localisation and Religious Change; The Concept of Religious Change; Approaching Religious Change; The Genealogy of Religious Change; The Impetus for Change; Localising Salafism; Identity and Ethnicity; Chapter Three The Islamisation of South-east Ethiopia and Bale; The Introduction of Islam to South-east Ethiopia; Agents of Change: Religious Preachers; The Islamic Sultanates; The Oromo of Bale |
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The Amhara Conquest and IslamChapter Four The Religious Universe of the Oromo in Bale; Key Concepts; Key Rituals; Key Institutions; Knowledge, Karaama and Authority; Chapter Five The Emergence of Salafism in Bale; Fascist Italy and Islam in Bale; The First Emergence of Salafism in South-east Ethiopia; Changes of a Locality; The Arrival of Salafism in Bale; Encountering Salafism; Chapter Six Responding to Salafism; Demarcating Salafism; The Basic Features of Salafism in Bale; Contesting Authority; Convictions and Customs: Debating Religious Symbols; Literacy and Change |
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Salafism, Politics and the Bale RebellionChapter Seven The Derg and Processes of Change; The Revolution; The Derg and Islam; Revolution and Religion in Bale; Armed Insurgency; Repression; The Process of Modernisation; Modernisation and Religious Change; Chapter Eight Democratisation and Da wa; The Political Transition; The Resurgence of Salafism; Radicalisation and Ahl al-Sunna; The Content of the Teaching; Attracting Followers; Conflict and Controversy; Fragmentation; Chapter Nine Salafism, Politics and Ethnicity; Political Islam: Old Prejudices and New Fear; Salafism and Ethnicity |
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Creating MeaningChapter Ten Concluding Discussion; The Dialectics of Religious Change; The Continuous Process of Religious Change; Localising Salafism; Appendix; Glossary; List of Informants; References; Index |
| Summary |
With a particular focus on the role of situated actors, this book sheds light on the emergence and expansion of Salafism in Bale, Ethiopia from the late 1960s, through the Marxist period (1974-1991) before discussing the rapid expansion and fragmentation of the movement in the 1990s until 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Islam -- Ethiopia -- History
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SalafìIyah -- Ethiopia
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Oromo (African people) -- Ethiopia
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Islam
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Oromo (African people)
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Ethiopia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004217492 |
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9004217495 |
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1283292424 |
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9781283292429 |
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