Afromecca In History

Author : Chanfi Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527537989

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AfroMecca in History by Chanfi Ahmed Pdf

Just as the racist imaginary of Europeans about Black Africans has centered since the 18th century on the term “monkey/ape”, that of Arabs has centered, since at least the middle ages, on the term “ʿabd” (“slave”). According to this imaginary, any black person is, by definition, a slave. As such, this book discusses anti-Black racism in Mecca and in other Arab regions, as well as the ancient presence of the Black diaspora in Mecca and Hijaz and the contribution it has made in different areas. The book also looks at the teaching system in the al-Haram Mosque of Mecca, its religious and political role, and the way it was dispensed during the Ottoman period, the reign of Sharīf Husayn and the political regime of the Āl Sa'ūd Wahhābī.

Author : Ousmane Oumar Kane
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012319

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Islamic Scholarship in Africa by Ousmane Oumar Kane Pdf

Cutting-edge research in the study of Islamic scholarship and its impact on the religious, political, economic and cultural history of Africa; bridges the europhone/non-europhone knowledge divides to significantly advance decolonial thinking, and extend the frontiers of social science research in Africa.

Author : Dale Hudson,Alia Yunis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253067586

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Reorienting the Middle East by Dale Hudson,Alia Yunis Pdf

Stories of exotic desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a much longer and more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is film and digital media between cultures in East Africa, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary aspects of film and deigital media in the Gulf that might not otherwise be legible in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the 1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the development of film festivals and cinemas, and short films made by citizens and migrants that turn a lens on racism, sexism, national identity, and other social issues rarely discussed publicly. Reorienting the Middle East offers new methods to analyze the oft-neglected littoral spaces between nation-states and regions and to understand the role of film and digital media in shaping questions between area studies and film/media studies. Readers will find new pathways to rethink the limitations of dominant categories and frameworks in both fields.

Author : Parisa Vaziri
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452970202

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Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery by Parisa Vaziri Pdf

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture? Parisa Vaziri addresses this question by looking at residues of the Indian Ocean slave trade in Iranian films from the second half of the twentieth century. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema (fīlmfārsī) and alternative filmmaking (the Iranian New Wave), she pays particular attention to the healing ritual zār, which is both an African slave descendent practice and a constitutive element of Iranian culture, as well as to cinematic sīyāh bāzī (Persian black play). Moving beyond other studies on Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan slavery, Vaziri highlights the crystallization of a singular mode of historicity within these cinematic examples—one of “absence” that reflects the relative dearth of archival information on the facts surrounding Indian Ocean slavery. Bringing together cinema studies, Middle East studies, Black studies, and postcolonial theory, Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery explores African enslavement in the Indian Ocean through the revelatory and little-known history of Iranian cinema. It shows that Iranian film reveals a resistance to facticity representative of the history of African enslavement in the Indian Ocean and preserves the legacy of African slavery’s longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Author : Jonathan A.C. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861544851

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Islam and Blackness by Jonathan A.C. Brown Pdf

It is commonly claimed that Islam is antiblack, even inherently bent on enslaving Black Africans. Western and African critics alike have contended that antiblack racism is in the faith’s very scriptural foundations and its traditions of law, spirituality, and theology. But what is the basis for this accusation? Bestselling scholar Jonathan A.C. Brown examines Islamic scripture, law, Sufism, and history to comprehensively interrogate this claim and determine how and why it emerged. Locating its origins in conservative politics, modern Afrocentrism, and the old trope of Barbary enslavement, he explains how antiblackness arose in the Islamic world and became entangled with normative tradition. From the imagery of ‘blackened faces’ in the Quran to Shariah assessments of Black women as ‘undesirable’ and the assertion that Islam and Muslims are foreign to Africa, this work provides an in-depth study of the controversial knot that is Islam and Blackness, and identifies authoritative voices in Islam’s past that are crucial for combatting antiblack racism today.

Author : Chanfi Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527536327

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AfroMecca in History by Chanfi Ahmed Pdf

Just as the racist imaginary of Europeans about Black Africans has centered since the 18th century on the term monkey/ape, that of Arabs has centered, since at least the middle ages, on the term Ê¿abd (slave). According to this imaginary, any black person is, by definition, a slave. As such, this book discusses anti-Black racism in Mecca and in other Arab regions, as well as the ancient presence of the Black diaspora in Mecca and Hijaz and the contribution it has made in different areas. The book also looks at the teaching system in the al-Haram Mosque of Mecca, its religious and political role, and the way it was dispensed during the Ottoman period, the reign of SharÄ«f Husayn and the political regime of the Äel Sa'Å«d WahhÄ bÄ«.

Author : Chanfi Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527512146

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Preaching Islamic Revival in East Africa by Chanfi Ahmed Pdf

This book deals with the new dynamics of Islam in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Comoros) and its attempt to expand through various missionary activities. As Muslim reformers have done elsewhere in the world, the reformers in East Africa are fighting for an Islamic awakening. The central argument of this book is to say that although these activities are supported by contributions from transnational networks, their origins go back to the frustration of Muslim communities of East Africa with politics, education, and professional training. The other argument is to show that this Islamic awakening is not just about the Salafi or Muslim Brothers trend, it concerns also Shī‘a, Sufi, Muslim Bible Scholars and others alike. All these trends mimic each other while competing against each other at the same time. They also take the same position vis-à-vis the various Christian groups.

Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041079398

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Race and Color in Islam by Bernard Lewis Pdf

Author : Chanfi Ahmed
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004291942

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West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina by Chanfi Ahmed Pdf

Chanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.

Author : Side Emre
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341371

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Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani Order by Side Emre Pdf

This book is a historical study on Ibrahim-i Gulshani and the Khalwati-Gulshani order of dervishes. It examines the order’s influence, network, and legacy on early modern regional and imperial politics and society in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Moon-Kie Jung,João H. Costa Vargas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478013167

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Antiblackness by Moon-Kie Jung,João H. Costa Vargas Pdf

Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun

Author : Mbaye Lo,Muhammed Haron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137552310

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Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa by Mbaye Lo,Muhammed Haron Pdf

Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.

Author : C. Snouck Hurgronje
Publisher : Brill Classics in Islam
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004450246

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Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century by C. Snouck Hurgronje Pdf

From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.

Author : Jane Hooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Food industry and trade
ISBN : 0821422537

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Feeding Globalization by Jane Hooper Pdf

Feasts and violence -- "The richest and most fruitful island in the world"--The Sakalava: from warriors to merchants -- The Betsimisaraka, pirate kings -- Rituals of consumption, rituals of domination -- European warfare and imperialism -- Slaving failures -- Exporting violence to the Comoros -- From feasts to famine

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004186057

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Translocality by Anonim Pdf

Drawing on case studies mostly from Asia and Africa, this book reconsiders the increasing interconnectedness between world regions from a perspective of ‘translocality’. It suggests a more comprehensive reading of processes often simplified as ‘global’, very recent, unidirectional, and ‘Western’-dominated.