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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785155103321

Autore

Ghazal Amal N.

Titolo

Islamic reform and Arab nationalism : expanding the crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s-1930s) / / Amal N. Ghazal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-99655-9

1-136-99656-7

1-282-78210-X

9786612782107

0-203-85529-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Culture and civilization in the Middle East

Disciplina

320.540917/4927

Soggetti

Arab nationalism

Nationalism - Religious aspects - Islam

Islamic renewal

Islam and politics - Arab countries

Anti-imperialist movements - Arab countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 ARABS IN ZANZIBAR: Revisiting history; 2 THE IBADI NAHDA IN OMAN AND ZANZIBAR: From tajdid to anticolonialism; 3 ZANZIBAR AND MZAB: Historical Legacies and Colonial Encounters; 4 ZANZIBAR: In the realm of the Mashriq; 5 NASIR AL-BAHLANI: "A Man in a Nation and a Nation in a Man"; 6 IN THE REALM OF SALAFI ISLAM: The Ibadi Diaspora, the Arabic press, and the making of Zanzibari Nationalism; 7 GUARDING THE WATAN: Education and Identity in Interwar Zanzibar; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the evolution of identity politics. Bridging African and Arab histories and giving a cross-national and cross-regional analysis of movements of religious reform, nationalism and anti-colonialism, its wide geographical coverage ranges from Zanzibar on the Indian Ocean



through to Oman into the Mediterranean.