Lidwien Kapteijns
Biographic Data
| ID | 109003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lidwien Kapteijns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lidwien |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapteijns |
| SIGNATURE | KAPTEIJNS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Stringing Coral Beads
This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious ed…
Mahdish Faith & Sudanic Traditio
First published in 1985. This monograph is from a series on African Studies and looks at the history of the Masallt Sultanate from 1870 to 1930. As literature on western Dar Fur is nearly non-existent and relevant travel accounts few, it is almost completely based on primary sources. The (Arabic) Mahdist Archives and (English) Condominium Archives kept at the Central Records Office, Khartoum, French and British Archives, and the Sudan Collection …
Women’s Legal Agency and Property in the Court Records of Late Nineteenth-Century Brava
Drawing on the Islamic court records of Brava, a small Indian Ocean port city on the southern Benadir coast of Somalia, dating from the period 1893–1900, this essay analyzes the legal agency and economic roles of the women of Brava and sheds new light on social (especially family) relations in this town. The qāḍī’s court records give evidence of married women’s fully recognized (even if qualified) legal personhood and their full-fledged financial…
Islamic Law, Gender, and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar, written by Elke E. Stockreiter
British Somaliland
Book Review| April 01 2015 British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920–1960 British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920–1960, by Brock Millman. London and New York: Routledge, 2014; pp. xi + 314, maps. $152.00 cloth. Lidwien Kapteijns Lidwien Kapteijns Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 206–210. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0206 Cite I…
Transitional Justice and Speaking Truth to Somali History
Research Article| October 01 2014 Transitional Justice and Speaking Truth to Somali History: A Dialogue Lidwien Kapteijns; Lidwien Kapteijns Kendall/Hodder Professor of History, Wellesley College, MA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fowsia Abdulkadir Fowsia Abdulkadir Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2014) 14 (2): 133–134. https://do…
Test-firing the ‘new world order’ in Somalia
The US/UN Military Humanitarian Intervention (MHI) in Somalia has given rise to a vast body of writing to which the MHI's relationships with Somalis and the devastating political and moral impact on them have often remained incidental. This article focuses on how the MHI in Somalia, taken as a whole, was unable to keep or enforce peace, failed to benefit the humanitarian wellbeing and human rights of ordinary Somalis and itself caused the latter …
Transformations in Slavery
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretati…
Mediations of Violence in Africa
CONTENTS List of Illustrations Colour Plates Preface Introduction Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters Making Memories of Mogadishu in Somali Poetry about the Civil War Lidwien Kapteijns Road, the Song and the Citizen: Singing after Violence in KwaZulu-Natal Liz Gunner Maisha bora, kwa nani? A Cool Life, for Whom? Mediations of Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Violence in a Nairobi Slum Naomi van Stapele Testimonies of Suffering and Recasting the M…
Mediations of Violence in Africa
Mediations of violence in Africa
Making Memories Of Mogadishu In Somali Poetry About The Civil War
This essay examines a particular set of Somali poems, namely texts that discursively use Mogadishu, the capital city of the independent Republic of Somalia since 1960, to mediate the violence of state collapse and reconstruction. Before turning to these specific texts, however, it is necessary to provide some background to the wider set of sources to which they belong and the violence with which they deal. The analysis of the changing political d…
Civilizing women
Discourse on Moral Womanhood in Somali Popular Songs, 1960–1990
This article is a study of Somali popular songs of the period 1960–90, which opened with the establishment of the Somali national state and ended with its collapse. It focuses on these songs as a discursive site in which a particular dilemma of the new Somali state clearly comes into focus, namely the desire to be ‘modern’, while at the same time turning to ‘tradition’ (i.e. a particular construction of Somali cultural authenticity and traditiona…
Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa (review)
Reviewed by: Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa Lidwien Kapteijns de Waal, Alex , ed. 2004. Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. xiv, 279 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The subject of this edited volume is militant Islamism, especially its neofundamentalist, jihadist variant in Northeast Africa. There are four contributors to this book, but its unifying vision is that of the edito…
Historical Dictionary of Somalia (review)
Government Qadis and Child Marriage in Aden
Although the terms and (as in British Empire and Her Imperial Majesty) call up images of grandeur, in the colonies the business of empire was often quite humdrum and meant getting involved in the most detailed aspects of the lives of the common subjects, including those of the fast-growing urban underclasses. One of the places where the urban underclass of a rapidly expanding, densely populated, multicultural, imperial port city becomes visible i…
Muslim Societies in African History
In Praise of Black Women, Vol. 1
A Modern History of the Somali
Somalia
Introduction to an unorthodox economy - A land of livestock - The destruction of rural-urban relations - Tough choices - Trade and trust in a risky environment - Life goes on - Somalia in a wider context - References. Figures Maps Index
Land Tenure and the State in the Precolonial Sudan
Land Tenure and the State in the Precolonial Sudan Jay Spaulding and Lidwien Kapteijns Everyone knows that an agricultural country practices agriculture. Ouologuem Yambo, "1901" History is a form of reasoning about the human experience, in which one uses evidence derived from primary sources to test interpretive ideas. Both evidential corpus and conceptual architecture deserve most careful scrutiny. This study addresses both evidential and interp…
State and Clan in Somalia
Presentation et commentaire de l'ouvrage de M.H. Brons, 2001, Society, Sovereignty and the State. Somalia: From Statelessness to Statelessness?. Selon l'A. cette etude est profondement insatisfaisante et presente des lacunes importantes, tant du point de vue conceptuel que factuel. Au lieu d'analyser les processus et structures historiques dans leurs contextes reels, Brons projette dans le passe eloigne et recent de la Somalie les termes et conce…
Transformations in Slavery
This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretati…
A Pastoral Democracy
I. M. Lewis, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition. Classics in African Anthropology series. Oxford: James Currey, with the International African Institute, 1999, 370 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 280 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
Veiled Sentiments
Gender Relations and the Transformation of the Northern Somali Pastoral Tradition
Etude du role de l'ideologie de la parente dans la societe precapitaliste pastorale somalienne du Nord et de son declin du au capital commercial et a l'Etat colonial entre 1850 et 1935. Alors que cette ideologie gouvernait une societe auto-suffisante dans laquelle l'âge et le sexe etaient les principaux axes d'inegalite et le mariage l'institution ou ces inegalites se reproduisaient, elle structurait aussi l'acces aux moyens de production, la div…
Precolonial Trade between States in the Eastern Sudan, ca 1700 - ca 1900
Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Discourse on Moral Womanhood in Somali Popular Songs, 1960–1990
This article is a study of Somali popular songs of the period 1960–90, which opened with the establishment of the Somali national state and ended with its collapse. It focuses on these songs as a discursive site in which a particular dilemma of the new Somali state clearly comes into focus, namely the desire to be ‘modern’, while at the same time turning to ‘tradition’ (i.e. a particular construction of Somali cultural authenticity and traditiona…
A Modern History of the Somali
Colonial Histories, Post-Colonial Memories
Muslim Societies in African History
Islam and Politics in Kenya
Imperial Sudan
Mahdist Faith and Sudanic Tradition
State and Society in Dar Fur
After the Millennium
Mahdist faith and the legitimation of popular revolt in western Sudan
Opening ParagraphThis article is based on a wider study of the history of the western Sudan, in particular the border area between the historical sultanates of Dar Fur and Wadai (Kapteijns, 1985). The period under discussion is 1882-1930, from the successful struggle against foreign domination led by the Sudanese Mahdi to the firm establishment of British colonial rule in the western Sudan. The theme which this article explores for this area and …
Dār Silā, the Sultanate in Precolonial Times, 1870-1916
L. Kapteijns - Le sultanat du Dâr Sila à l'époque précoloniale, 1870-1916. Au moment de la conquête du Wadai par les Français, en 1909, le souverain du sultanat dâjû du Dâr Silâ préféra éviter l'affrontement en se plaçant spontanément sous protectorat français, en échange de la reconnaissance et du maintien de sa souveraineté interne. En dépit de quoi, en 1916, après sept ans d'incompréhension réciproque, il fut détrôné et son royaume annexé. L'h…
British Somaliland
Book Review| April 01 2015 British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920–1960 British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920–1960, by Brock Millman. London and New York: Routledge, 2014; pp. xi + 314, maps. $152.00 cloth. Lidwien Kapteijns Lidwien Kapteijns Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 206–210. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0206 Cite I…
Transitional Justice and Speaking Truth to Somali History
Research Article| October 01 2014 Transitional Justice and Speaking Truth to Somali History: A Dialogue Lidwien Kapteijns; Lidwien Kapteijns Kendall/Hodder Professor of History, Wellesley College, MA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fowsia Abdulkadir Fowsia Abdulkadir Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2014) 14 (2): 133–134. https://do…
Government Qadis and Child Marriage in Aden
Although the terms and (as in British Empire and Her Imperial Majesty) call up images of grandeur, in the colonies the business of empire was often quite humdrum and meant getting involved in the most detailed aspects of the lives of the common subjects, including those of the fast-growing urban underclasses. One of the places where the urban underclass of a rapidly expanding, densely populated, multicultural, imperial port city becomes visible i…
Land Tenure and the State in the Precolonial Sudan
Land Tenure and the State in the Precolonial Sudan Jay Spaulding and Lidwien Kapteijns Everyone knows that an agricultural country practices agriculture. Ouologuem Yambo, "1901" History is a form of reasoning about the human experience, in which one uses evidence derived from primary sources to test interpretive ideas. Both evidential corpus and conceptual architecture deserve most careful scrutiny. This study addresses both evidential and interp…
State and Clan in Somalia
Presentation et commentaire de l'ouvrage de M.H. Brons, 2001, Society, Sovereignty and the State. Somalia: From Statelessness to Statelessness?. Selon l'A. cette etude est profondement insatisfaisante et presente des lacunes importantes, tant du point de vue conceptuel que factuel. Au lieu d'analyser les processus et structures historiques dans leurs contextes reels, Brons projette dans le passe eloigne et recent de la Somalie les termes et conce…
Women's Voices in a Man's World
Lidwien Kapteijns with Maryan Omar Ali, Women's Voices in a Man's World: women and the pastoral tradition in northern Somali orature, c. 1899–1980. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1999, 248 pp., US24.00, ISBN 0 325 00133 2 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4
New Studies of Women, Gender and Islam
Not much more than a decade ago, the academic study of Muslim women consisted largely of superficial attempts to read their contemporary realities directly from a random selection of sacred texts and patronizing assessments of the degrees of their immiseration. The progress made in the last decade with crucial contributions by Muslim women themselves and exemplified by Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity, edited by Herbert L. Bodman…
The Camel in Somali Oral Traditions
The relationship between the camel and the Somali people has traditionally been reflected in Somalia's oral literary forms: Poems, proverbs, work songs, metaphores and tales of wisdom. The author has gathered countless references to camels from these Somali traditions
African Historiography Written by Africans, 1955-1973
In the first part of this essay the development of the study of African history is sketched, and the historical studies written by professional African historians from 1955 to 1972-3 are analysed. Special attention is paid to the manisfestoes of the 1960s, programmatical declarations of what African history should be and how it should be written. Part two traces in detail what historical studis were actually produced in the fifteen years that fol…
State and Society in Dar Fur
Precolonial Trade between States in the Eastern Sudan, ca 1700 - ca 1900
Land In Dār Fūr. Charters and related documents from the Dār Fūr Sultanate
Journal Article Land In Dār Fūr. Charters and related documents from the Dār Fūr Sultanate Get access Land In Dār Fūr. Charters and related documents from the Dār Fūr Sultanate, translated with an introduction by R. S. O'Fahey and M. I. Abū Sālim with M.-J. and J. Tubiana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. LIDWIEN KAPTEIJNS LIDWIEN KAPTEIJNS Union, New Jersey, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Sisters under the Sun
The Emergence of a Sudanic State
Analyse de l'emergence d'un petit etat Soudanais, le Sultanat de Masalit a l'ouest de Dar Fur (Soudan). L'A. passe en revue les evenements politiques qui ont permis son apparition et etudie les methodes utilisees par les sultans, a la suite du Sultanat defunt de Dar Fur, pour consolider l'Etat de l'interieur
Dār Silā, the Sultanate in Precolonial Times, 1870-1916
L. Kapteijns - Le sultanat du Dâr Sila à l'époque précoloniale, 1870-1916. Au moment de la conquête du Wadai par les Français, en 1909, le souverain du sultanat dâjû du Dâr Silâ préféra éviter l'affrontement en se plaçant spontanément sous protectorat français, en échange de la reconnaissance et du maintien de sa souveraineté interne. En dépit de quoi, en 1916, après sept ans d'incompréhension réciproque, il fut détrôné et son royaume annexé. L'h…
Le Soudan Nilotique et l'Administration Britannique (1898-1956)
Mahdist Faith and Sudanic Tradition
Mahdist faith and the legitimation of popular revolt in western Sudan
Opening ParagraphThis article is based on a wider study of the history of the western Sudan, in particular the border area between the historical sultanates of Dar Fur and Wadai (Kapteijns, 1985). The period under discussion is 1882-1930, from the successful struggle against foreign domination led by the Sudanese Mahdi to the firm establishment of British colonial rule in the western Sudan. The theme which this article explores for this area and …
Mahdist Faith and Sudanic Tradition
Women of Omdurman
Sex and Society in Islam
Een Kennismaking met de Afrikaanse Geschiedenis
Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Des Troupeaux et des Femmes
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Women and Class in Africa
Two Ladies of Colonial Algeria
Vie du Sultan Mohamed Bakhit, 1856-1916
Women without Men
Politics of Law and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
The Camel in Somali Oral Traditions
The relationship between the camel and the Somali people has traditionally been reflected in Somalia's oral literary forms: Poems, proverbs, work songs, metaphores and tales of wisdom. The author has gathered countless references to camels from these Somali traditions
The Historiography of the Northern Sudan from 1500 to the Establishment of British Colonial Rule
Lidwien Kapteijns, The Historiography of the Northern Sudan from 1500 to the Establishment of British Colonial Rule: A Critical Overview, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1989), pp. 251-266
After the Millennium
History (60 works) · Political science (47 works) · African history and culture analysis (32 works) · Ancient history (32 works) · Philosophy (32 works) · History (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (25 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Islamic Studies and History (20 works)