{"product_id":"islamic-sufi-networks-in-the-western-indian-ocean-c-1880-1940-ripples-of-reform-9789004251342","title":"Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices and religious leaders. On the East African coast, the orders were both a vehicle for conversion to Islam and for reform of Islamic practice. The impact of Sufism on local communities is here traced geographically as a ripple reaching beyond the Swahili cultural zone southwards to Mozambique, Madagascar and Cape Town. Through an investigation of the texts, ritual practices and scholarly networks that went alongside Sufi expansion, this book places religious change in the western Indian Ocean within the wider framework of Islamic reform.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In fact, the volume is impressive. It impresses through its sheer quantity of facts, be that information concerning persons, or the detailed description of the written and oral sources (interviews) in the appendix. [...] ....a very well-investigated presentation loaded with an abundance of details, which by means of the index can serve as a kind of reference work for experts, but also as informative reading for anyone interested in the history of Islam in Africa.' - Angelika Brodersen, in: Entangled Religions, 2 (2015)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword and Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  List of Figures  Note on Transliteration, Quotes and Dates   1 Introduction  The Ripple and the Reef: Perspectives and Objectives   2 The Luminescent Sun and Brilliant Rays of Light: Towards a Geography of Reform  Towards a Geography of Reform: A Web of Centres  The Ḥaramayn: The Blessed and the Radiant  The Ḥaḍramawt: Home of the Luminescent, Encompassing Mid-Day Sun  Zanzibar: The Brilliant Star of East Africa  Lamu and the Riyadha Mosque  The Comoro Islands: Moon Islands in a Sea of Sun  Rays of Light and Hierarchies   3 The Branches of the Qādiriyya and the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique: Silsilas to the South The Ṭarīqa Qādiriyya in Zanzibar  The Qādiriyya in Mozambique: Multiple Routes South  Muḥammad Al-Maʿrūf and the Spread of the Shādhiliyya in Northern Mozambique  The Emergence of Sufi Orders in Norhern Mozambique   4 The Shādhiliyya in Northern Madagascar c. 1890–1940: The Planting of a Garden and the Growing of Malagasy Roots  Islam in Northern Madagascar  Family, Religion and Trade on Madagascar: East African-Comorian Networks and the Shādhiliyya  Aḥmad al-Kabīr: The Great Shaykh of the Ṭarīqa Shādhiliyya of Northern Madagascar Reform and the Emergence of a Malagasy Sufi Order   5 The Cape Town Muslim Community and East African Sufi Networks: Beyond the Monsoon Islam in South Africa and Cape Town  Muhammad Salih Hendricks: From Periphery to Centre to the Network  Other Travellers – More Daʿwa   6 Travelling Texts: Arabic Literate Learning in Coastal East Africa, c. 1860–1930  Textual Transmission and Religious Authority  Book Knowledge in the Age of Manuscripts: 1860s into the Twentieth Century  From Manuscript to Print: Parallel or Converging Authorities?  Manuscripts, Printed Books and Religious Authority   7 Ritual of Reform – Reform of a Ritual: Rātib al-Ḥaddād in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, c. 1880–1940  Rātib Al-Ḥaddād as Sufi Reform  Rātib al-Ḥaddād in East and South Africa  The Rātib in Writing: Textualization of Charisma  The Rātib Performed: Reform of a Ritual?  The Rātib al-Ḥaddād: New Reform of a Reformist Ritual?   8 Consolidating the Network: Waqf Distribution and New Organizations in Zanzibar, c. 1900–1930  Scholarly Networks and the Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs”, c. 1880–1940  Waqf Distribution within Intellectual Networks: Consolidating Reform through Waqf Funds  From Networks to Organizations: The Rise of the Jamʿiyya, c. 1900–1930   9 Conclusions  On Ripples and Reefs: Agency in a Translocal World  Sufi Reform on the Move  The Ecumene that wasn’t – yet?   Appendix 1  The Zanzibari “Meccan Waqfs” Contained in ZA-HD10   Sources and Bibliography  Arabic Textual Material  Arabic Manuscript Sources (Listed)  Archival Sources  Oral Sources\/Interviews  Bibliography   Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210637893975,"sku":"9789004251342","price":126.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/islamic-sufi-networks-in-the-western-indian-ocean-c-1880-1940-ripples-of-reform-9789004251342","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}