In the Shadow of Conquest: Islam in Colonial Northeast Africa

✍ Scribed by Said S. Samatar; B. G. Martin; Abdul S. Bemath; Mohammed Hassen; Abdusamad Ahmad; Lidwien Kapteijns; Jay Spaulding

Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 172
Edition: paper
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION - The Islamic Vision and Colonial Northeast Africa
Said S. Samatar

CHAPTER ONE - Shaykh Zayla’i and the Nineteenth-Century Somali Qadiriya
B. G. Martin

CHAPTER TWO - The Sayyid and Saalihiya Tariqa: Reformist, Anticolonial Hero in Somalia
Abdul S. Bemath

CHAPTER THREE - Sheikh Uways Muhammad of Baraawe, 1847-1909: Mystic and Reformer in East Africa
Said S. Samatar

CHAPTER FOUR - Islam as a Resistance Ideology Among the Oromo of Ethiopia: The Wallo Case, 1700-1900
Mohammed Hassen

CHAPTER FIVE - Popular Islam in Twentieth Century Africa: The Muslims of Gondar, 1900-1935
Abdusamad Ahmad

CHAPTER SIX - Dar Sila, The Sultanate in Precolonial Times, 1870-1916
Lidwien Kapteijns

CHAPTER SEVEN - Two Muslims on the Eve of British Colonialism in the Sudan, 1908: A Letter of Submission
Jay Spaulding

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