Muslim Ethiopia [electronic resource] : The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism /
Østebø, Terje.author.
Desplat, P.editor.
Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Christian legacy, identity politics and Islamic reformism / Patrick Desplat & Terje Ostebo -- Muslim struggle for recognition in contemporary Ethiopia / Dereje Feyissa -- Being young, being Muslim in Bale / Terje Ostebo -- Among Muslim Afar pastoralists / Simone Rettberg -- The formation of trans-religious pilgrimage centers in southeast Ethiopia: Sitti Momina and the Faraqasa connection / Minako Ishihara -- The gendering dimension in Sufi contestation of religious orthodoxy: representations of women in a Sufi shrine at Tiru Sina / Meron Zeleke -- Negotiating wali venerating practices in Ethiopia: Islamic reformist movements and identity politics in Siltie zone / Zerihun A. Woldeselassie -- Against Wahabism? Islamic reform ambivalence and sentiments of loss in Harar / Patrick Desplat -- Islam, war and peace in the Horn of Africa / Haggai Erlich -- Transborder Islamic activism in the Horn of Africa: the case of tadamun - an Ethiopian Muslim brotherhood? / Stig Jarle Hansen -- Ahlu sunna wa l-jama'a in Somalia / Roland Marchal and Zakaria M. Sheekh.
Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Religion and sociology.
Africa-History.
Religion-History.
Islam.
Religions.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Sociology of Religion.
African History.
History of Religion.
Islam.
Comparative Religion.