Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101001
Kota Kariya
{"title":"Free Choice Theory and the Justification of Enslavement in the Early Sokoto Caliphate","authors":"Kota Kariya","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01101001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Sokoto Caliphate, which was based on Islamic law, depended considerably on widespread systematic slavery in political, economic, and social spheres. According to Islamic law, it is only permitted, in principle, to enslave non-Muslims or unbelievers, and ʿUthmān b. Fūdī, the founder of the Caliphate, labeled his principal enemies (i.e. the rulers of the Hausa states and Bornu and their followers) as apostate unbelievers. However, Muslim jurists historically presented conflicting views regarding the permissibility of enslaving apostates. Faced with this legal disagreement, ʿUthmān, referring to numerous preceding scholars, argued that it was permissible to choose any one of several juristic views regarding a legal issue on which scholars disagreed. By the employment of this “free choice theory”, he justified the enslavement of those whom he labeled as apostates and consequently authorized the enslavement of all kinds of people whom he had categorized as unbelievers living in and around Hausaland.","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81783462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101003
Auwais Rafudeen
{"title":"Theorizing Sunniyat as a Mode of Being: An Asadian Perspective from South Africa","authors":"Auwais Rafudeen","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01101003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Reflecting on thoughts by Talal Asad, this paper suggests an approach to theorizing Sunniyat – the approach to Islam taken by those commonly called “Barelvis” – in South Africa by focusing on sensibilities and dispositions. It specifically examines the kinds of sensibilities that are cultivated by adherents in their relationship to the Prophet as well as in their practice of everyday ethics. The aim is to shed light on the embodied nature of these sensibilities and not just their discursive context. In Asad’s work, both dimensions are important, but discourse is a prelude to embodiment, with the latter constituting one’s mode of being in the world. In thinking about Sunniyat in this way, the works of Abdulkader Tayob and Seraj Hendricks provide important precedents for navigating both discursiveness and embodiment in a South African Muslim context.","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84225669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101005
Lorenzo D’Angelo
{"title":"Alusine Jalloh, Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone","authors":"Lorenzo D’Angelo","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01101005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83185422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001010
S. MacEachern
{"title":"Thurston, Alexander, Boko Haram: The History of An African Jihadist Movement","authors":"S. MacEachern","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85467914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001015
A. Abushouk
{"title":"Professor Emeritus Rex Sean O’Fahey (d. 9 April 2019)","authors":"A. Abushouk","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88381226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001011
Nermeen Mouftah
{"title":"Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty, written by Hannah Hoechner","authors":"Nermeen Mouftah","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85303259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001002
Sara Katz
{"title":"Islamic Prestige, Piety and Debate in Early Lagosian Newspapers, 1920s–40s","authors":"Sara Katz","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001002","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the debates about Islam and Muslim behavior in colonial Lagosian newspapers from the 1920s to the 1940s. It argues that the content of debates about Islam varied depending on the language in which they took place: while Islamic debates in English advocated reforming both Islam and Muslim behavior through practices that reflected British and Christian missionary values and aesthetics, Yoruba-language discourses centered on the moral obligations of the individual to the wider community.","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84440295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Islamic AfricaPub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001007
Collet Hadrien
{"title":"Royal Pilgrims from Takrūr According to ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazīrī (12th–16th Century)","authors":"Collet Hadrien","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001007","url":null,"abstract":"This piece is a presentation and a translation of al-Jazīrī’s al-Durar al-farāʾiḍ chapter on the royal pilgrims from Takrūr. This chapter presents notably an entirely new account on the pilgrimage of Idrīs b. ʿAlī, greatest sultan of Borno. The Cairene Sufi historian al-Jazīrī was at the time heading the office administrating the pilgrimage to Mecca. He was then at the center of the information traffic. An introduction presenting the author, his work, and royal pilgrims from West Africa opens the article, followed by the translation and the Arabic text.","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85789345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}