ISBN:
9783031274237
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 435 p. 27 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2023.
Series Statement:
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Keywords:
Religion—History.
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Islam—History.
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Africa, Sub-Saharan—History.
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Europe, Central—History.
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Africa—History.
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Imperialism.
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Religion
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Islam
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Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Europe, Central
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Africa
Abstract:
1. Introduction: Studying Islam in German East Africa -- 1.1 Previous Scholarship and Sources -- 1.2 Historical Overview and Chapter Plan -- I. Race and Religion: Islam and the 'Arab Revolt' -- 2. Supplanting “Arabdom”: Race and Religion in the German Conquest -- 2.1 Islam and “Arabdom” in the Scramble for East Africa -- 2.2 The “Arab Revolt” in Imperial Reckoning -- 2.3 Insurgent Coalitions and “Arab” Identity -- 2.4 Islam and “Arab” Politics -- 3. Contested Philology: Kiswahili as Religious Language -- 3.1 Missionary Philology, Religion, and Romanisation -- 3.2 Kiswahili as Contested Language -- 3.3 The Christianisation of Kiswahil -- 3.4 Race and Language: Colonial Religion and the Disavowal of Hybridity -- II. Colonial Instrumentality: Islam in the German “Civilising Mission” -- 4. Slavery and Religion: From Anti-Islamic Abolitionism to Christian Serfdom -- 4.1 The Quick Rise and Fall of the German Anti-Slavery Movement -- 4.2 Islam and Christianity in the “Civilising” Regime -- 4.3 Slavery in Missionary Campaigns and Parliamentary Debates -- 4.4 Bureaucratised Manumission and Coercive Labour Regimes -- 5. Educating for Islam? The German Government Schools and “Christian Civilising” -- 5.1 A School for Muslims in Tanga -- .2 “Secular” Schools and Missionary Complaints -- 5.3 Repression and Simple Equivalences -- 5.4 Colonial Instrumentality: Islam, Made in the Image of “Civilising” -- III. Coloured Justice: Colonial Jurisdiction and Islamic Law -- 6. Islam in the German Legal Order: Constitutional Conflicts and “Native Law” -- 6.1 The Schutzgebietsgesetz of 1886 -- .2 Implementing a Racial Divide -- 6.3 Defining Religious Exemptions -- 6.4 Islam in the Colonial Practice of “Native Law” -- 7. Studying Islamic Law: Elisions of German Scholarship -- 7.1 German Orientalism and Islamic Jurisprudence -- 7.2 “Native Law” and Islamic “Influence” -- 7.3 Coloured Justice: The Irreality of Colonial Law -- IV. Political Islam: The Making of “Islamic Danger” -- 8. Phantoms of Muslim Sedition: From Maji Maji to the “Mecca Letters” -- 8.1 Islam in the Maji Maji War -- 8.2 The “Mecca Letter” of 1908 -- 8.3 The Liabilities of “Islamic Danger” -- 8.4 Sufi Piety and Government Interventions -- 9. Mainstreaming “Islamic Danger”: Scholars, Missionaries, and Colonial Surveillance -- 9.1 German Scholars and the Geopolitics of Islam -- 9.2 Becker’s Islamwissenschaft and the Colonial Congress of 1910 -- 9.3 Colonial Press and Missionary Activism -- 9.4 Surveying Islam in East Africa -- 9.5 Political Islam: The Swan Song of Wartime Propaganda -- 10. Conclusion: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion -- 10.1 Pluralising Concepts: A Genealogy of Entangled Pretensions -- 10.2 Provincialising Europe: The Force of the Unrepresented -- 10.3 Rhizomatic Topography: The Sprawling Study of Islam.
Abstract:
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion. Jörg Haustein is Associate Professor of World Christianity at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Previously, he has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He is a scholar of religion in Africa from the nineteenth century onward, specializing in Pentecostal Christianity, colonial Islam, and the intersection of religion and development.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-27423-7
