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Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963
Summary in English.||Bibliography: leaves 265-272.
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| author | Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8003 Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 Mwakimako, Hassan Abdulrahman Tayob, Abdulkader Bakari, Muhammad Religious Studies Summary in English.||Bibliography: leaves 265-272. This study demonstrates the flexibility and manipulability of Islamic leadership in a pluralistic situation, and argues that colonial policies and practices concerning Islamic legal practitioners (qadis), their institutions (qadis courts) reflected British prejudices about ethnicity and race. In a broad sense this work first examines how power, politics, ethnicity and colonialism influenced the development of political institutions among Muslims. Secondly, it debates the basis of the authority of the (ulam 2014-10-02T13:21:46Z 2014-10-02T13:21:46Z 2003 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8003 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 |
| title_full | Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 |
| title_fullStr | Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 |
| title_short | Politics, ethnicity and jostling for power : the evolution of institutions of Muslim leadership and Kadhiship in colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 |
| title_sort | politics ethnicity and jostling for power the evolution of institutions of muslim leadership and kadhiship in colonial kenya 1895 1963 |
| topic | Religious Studies |
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