The Khōjā of Tanzania
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kac...
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| description | The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity (jamatī) from their initial Indic caste identity (jñāti) towards an emergent Near Eastern imaged Islamic nation (ummatī) through four disciplinary approaches: historiography, politics, linguistics, and ethnology. Over the past two centuries, rapid transitions and discontinuities have produced the profound tensions which have resulted from the willful amnesia of their pre-Islamic Indic civilizational past for an ideological and politicized ‘Islamic’ present. This study aims to document, theorize, and engage this theological transformation of modern Khōjā religious identities as expressed through dimensions of power, language, space, and the body. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1588652025-04-24T04:09:27Z The Khōjā of Tanzania Akhtar, Iqbal Khōjā discontinuities identity postcolonial Tanzania religious identity religious citizenship Afro-Asian Islamic The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity (jamatī) from their initial Indic caste identity (jñāti) towards an emergent Near Eastern imaged Islamic nation (ummatī) through four disciplinary approaches: historiography, politics, linguistics, and ethnology. Over the past two centuries, rapid transitions and discontinuities have produced the profound tensions which have resulted from the willful amnesia of their pre-Islamic Indic civilizational past for an ideological and politicized ‘Islamic’ present. This study aims to document, theorize, and engage this theological transformation of modern Khōjā religious identities as expressed through dimensions of power, language, space, and the body. 2025-04-24T04:09:26Z 2025-04-24T04:09:26Z 2025-04-23T12:51:38Z 2016 book ONIX_20250423_9789004292888_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101098 9789004292888 9789004274747 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158865 eng Studies of Religion in Africa open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101098/1/9789004292888.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004292888 10.1163/9789004292888 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9ce52ff7-dad1-4145-be9e-0822addc836b 9789004292888 9789004274747 AWD14025 – 800016211 open access |
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