| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Indian Ocean series |
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Indian Ocean series.
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| Contents |
Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 The Al̄ Ba ̄(Banı)̄ Alawı ̄The H -- chapter 2 The Al̄ bin Sumayt / ˙ -- chapter 3 AHMAD B. ABI ̄BAKR B. SUMAYT -- chapter 4 H˙ADRAMAWT REVISITED -- chapter 5 Travelling years: Zanzibar-Istanbul-Cairo-Mecca- Java-Zanzibar, 1885-1888 -- chapter 6 IBNSUMAYT˙,THE 'ALAWIYYA AND THE SHAF̄I 'I 'ULAMA ̄OF ZANZIBAR c.1870-1925 -- chapter 7 Scriptural Islam in East Africa: The Alawiyya, Arabisation and the indigenisation of Islam, 1880-1925 -- chapter 8 THE WORK OF AQAD̄˙I -- chapter 9 EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS WITHIN THE COLONIAL STATE -- chapter 10 THE DEATH OF A GENERATION |
| Summary |
This book focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sufism -- Africa, East -- History
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Sufis -- Africa, East -- Biography
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Ulama -- Africa, East -- Biography
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Nosairians -- Africa, East -- Biography
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Islamic sects -- Africa, East -- History
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RELIGION -- Islam -- Sufi.
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Islamic sects
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Nosairians
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Sufis
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Sufism
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Ulama
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Africa, East
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203592689 |
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9780203592687 |
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9780415317634 |
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0415317630 |
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9786610314591 |
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6610314594 |
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