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

Author(s)

• Ghazal, Amal N.

Bibliographic Information

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

Amal N. Ghazal

（Culture and civilization in the Middle East）

Routledge, 2010

Note

Bibliography: p. 153-165

Includes index

Summary: 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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II. It provides a cross-national, cross-regional analysis of religious reform, nationalism, anti-colonialism from Zanzibar to Oman, North Africa and the Middle East. This book widens the scope of modern Arab history by integrating Omani rule in Zanzibar in the historiography of Arab nationalism and Islamic reform. It examines the intellectual and political ties and networks between Zanzibar, Oman, Algeria, Egypt, Istanbul and the Levant and the ways those links shaped the politics of identity of the Omani elite in Zanzibar. Out of these connections emerges an Omani intelligentsia strongly tied to the Arab cultural nahda and to movements of Islamic reform, pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism. The book examines Zanzibari nationalism, as formulated by the Omani intelligentsia, through the prism of these pan-Islamic connections and in the light of Omani responses to British policies in Zanzibar. The author sheds light on Ibadism - an overlooked sect of Islam - and its modern intellectual history and the role of the Omani elite in bridging Ibadism with pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism. Although much has been written about nationalism in the Arab world, this is the first book to discuss nationalism in Zanzibar in the wider context of religious reform and nationalism in the Arab world, and the first to offer a new framework of analysis to the study of pan-Islamic and pan-Arab movements and nationalism.

Table of Contents

1. Arabs in Zanzibar: Revisiting History 2. The Ibadi nahda in Oman and Zanzibar: from tajdid to anti-Colonialism 3. Zanzibar and Mzab: Historical Legacies and Colonial Encounters 4. Zanzibar in the realm of the Mashriq 5. Nai'ir 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

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Details

• NCID: BB02165308
• ISBN:
  • 9780415779807
• LCCN: 2009038188
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, NY
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 171 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS63.6
  • DC22 : 320.540917/4927
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Arab nationalism
  • LCSH : Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam
  • LCSH : Islamic renewal
  • LCSH : Islam and politics -- Arab countries
  • LCSH : Anti-imperialist movements -- Arab countries
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA40381195