Lorenzo Macagno, Outros muçulmanos. Islão e narrativas coloniais, Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006, 254 pages, illustr., bibl., ISBN 972-671-182-7

Abstract

The vague title of this book fails to indicate that the subject is Mozambican Islam in late colonial and post-colonial times. The topic is of crucial relevance to the future of Mozambique, for a large and growing proportion of the population is Muslim, especially in the north, with Nampula as its centre. Islam was generally neglected in the colonial period, except at its very end, and was a taboo subject for much of the time that Samora Machel was in power. However, a growing volume of work o...