Hassan Mwakimako
Biographic Data
| ID | 115925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hassan Mwakimako |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hassan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mwakimako |
| SIGNATURE | MWAKIMAKO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pwani University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Governance and Islam in East Africa
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim theology, rituals and general welfare. Both these approaches are covered in this book, and a third is added – the study of Muslims as citizens or residents of their respective countries, looking at their activities and attitudes …
Religious Plurality in Africa
Integrationism vs. rejectionism
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya’s coastal region saw the rise of Islamist activism(s). Revisiting this rise, this article traces the history of two contrasting politico-religious groups seeking to address the historical marginalisation of Kenyan Muslim communities: the Mombasa-based Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) and the southern coastal Ansar Sunnah movement. While the IPK accepted the Kenyan nation-state and sought to empower Kenya’s Mus…
Islam, politics, and violence on the Kenya coast
In June 2014, the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni was the target of a brutal and prolonged terrorist attack, in which dozens of civilians were murdered. In the aftermath of the attack, there were apparently widely differing analyses of its nature and purpose. After a delay, the Somali-based al-Shabaab movement claimed responsibility. However, the government of Kenya insisted that it had actually been the result of ‘local politics’ – thought it w…
Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa
Situated at the junction of the Sahel-Saharan strip and the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa is growing in global importance due to demographic growth and the strategic importance of the Suez Canal. Divided into sections on authoritarianism and resistance, religion and politics, migration, economic integration, the military, and regimes and liberation, the contributors provide up-to-date, authoritative knowledge on the region in light of con…
Kenya’s Coast
In January 2019, Kenya’s already crowded political landscape was joined by another new party. The Umoja Summit Political Party was, avowedly, a party for the coast “formed on the basis of bringing back the elusive unity of the region,” as its founder declared. Observers might have been forgiven for regarding this initiative with scepticism. Following the general elections of 2013 there had been a series of meetings amongst a slightly shifting cas…
Preaching politics
Focusing on the Kenya coast, this article analyses the developing contrast between the place of Islam and Christianity in public politics. It argues that Islam’s association with criticism of the political order contrasts with Christianity, but that this is not the result of inherent difference between the religions. Both have previously provided a language, and space, for political commentary and activism in Kenya. The contrast is rather the con…
Islam and Democracy
debating electoral involvement on the Kenya coastIn the Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi, an unobtrusive green sign is nailed to a telegraph pole in the market place.Painted on it, in neat white letters, are the words Demokrasi ni ukafiri: 'Democracy is unbelief'.It is a brief statement of one view in a complex debate amongst Muslims in Kenya, about the nature of their collective relationship with the secular state and its elected bodies.In the run-…
The historical development of Muslim courts
The encounter between Muslims and the colonial state in eastern Africa remains an under-researched field of study. This article discusses British interactions with Muslims in colonial Kenya, giving particular attention to the institutionalization of the Muslim courts of the Kadhi, Liwali and Mudir. Control and regulation of all aspects of law became a crucial mechanism in the expansion of British influence, as is to be seen in the struggles over …
Muslim Encounters With the Colonial State
This essay examines the bureaucratization and institutionalizationof qadis in colonial Nairobi from two view points. First, that qadis, their authority, position, social status, the exactness of their jurisdiction, the metamorphosis and evolution of the courts was influenced by the peculiarities of colonial history. Second, its discourse was produced through a prism of social, ethnic and racialized ideological structuresin the community of its ex…
Kadhi Court and Appointment of Kadhi in Kenya Colony
Prior to 1895 when European legal institutions became dominant among Muslim communities in Kenya, ulama were prominent men of religion whose authority depended as much on their religious standing and moral authority. Ulama played significant socio-political and religious roles. However, colonial rule introduced structured justice and a court system that changed the way ulama operated. Their authority now rested on their legal expertise, colonial …
Christian–Muslim Relations in Kenya
This article examines contemporary paradigms, events and modes of communal behaviour which represent and reflect historical perspectives and shifts in Christian–Muslim relations in Kenya, which have been variously characterized by conflict, concord, polemics and dialogue, based on archival records, official documents and interviews. Since Muslims and Christians co-exist side by side in Kenya, they are compelled to respond to the challenges of thi…
Christian–Muslim Relations in Kenya
This article examines contemporary paradigms, events and modes of communal behaviour which represent and reflect historical perspectives and shifts in Christian–Muslim relations in Kenya, which have been variously characterized by conflict, concord, polemics and dialogue, based on archival records, official documents and interviews. Since Muslims and Christians co-exist side by side in Kenya, they are compelled to respond to the challenges of thi…
Preaching politics
Focusing on the Kenya coast, this article analyses the developing contrast between the place of Islam and Christianity in public politics. It argues that Islam’s association with criticism of the political order contrasts with Christianity, but that this is not the result of inherent difference between the religions. Both have previously provided a language, and space, for political commentary and activism in Kenya. The contrast is rather the con…
Islam and Democracy
debating electoral involvement on the Kenya coastIn the Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi, an unobtrusive green sign is nailed to a telegraph pole in the market place.Painted on it, in neat white letters, are the words Demokrasi ni ukafiri: 'Democracy is unbelief'.It is a brief statement of one view in a complex debate amongst Muslims in Kenya, about the nature of their collective relationship with the secular state and its elected bodies.In the run-…
The historical development of Muslim courts
The encounter between Muslims and the colonial state in eastern Africa remains an under-researched field of study. This article discusses British interactions with Muslims in colonial Kenya, giving particular attention to the institutionalization of the Muslim courts of the Kadhi, Liwali and Mudir. Control and regulation of all aspects of law became a crucial mechanism in the expansion of British influence, as is to be seen in the struggles over …
Integrationism vs. rejectionism
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya’s coastal region saw the rise of Islamist activism(s). Revisiting this rise, this article traces the history of two contrasting politico-religious groups seeking to address the historical marginalisation of Kenyan Muslim communities: the Mombasa-based Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) and the southern coastal Ansar Sunnah movement. While the IPK accepted the Kenyan nation-state and sought to empower Kenya’s Mus…
Christian–Muslim Relations in Kenya
This article examines contemporary paradigms, events and modes of communal behaviour which represent and reflect historical perspectives and shifts in Christian–Muslim relations in Kenya, which have been variously characterized by conflict, concord, polemics and dialogue, based on archival records, official documents and interviews. Since Muslims and Christians co-exist side by side in Kenya, they are compelled to respond to the challenges of thi…
Kadhi Court and Appointment of Kadhi in Kenya Colony
Prior to 1895 when European legal institutions became dominant among Muslim communities in Kenya, ulama were prominent men of religion whose authority depended as much on their religious standing and moral authority. Ulama played significant socio-political and religious roles. However, colonial rule introduced structured justice and a court system that changed the way ulama operated. Their authority now rested on their legal expertise, colonial …
Muslim Encounters With the Colonial State
This essay examines the bureaucratization and institutionalizationof qadis in colonial Nairobi from two view points. First, that qadis, their authority, position, social status, the exactness of their jurisdiction, the metamorphosis and evolution of the courts was influenced by the peculiarities of colonial history. Second, its discourse was produced through a prism of social, ethnic and racialized ideological structuresin the community of its ex…
The historical development of Muslim courts
The encounter between Muslims and the colonial state in eastern Africa remains an under-researched field of study. This article discusses British interactions with Muslims in colonial Kenya, giving particular attention to the institutionalization of the Muslim courts of the Kadhi, Liwali and Mudir. Control and regulation of all aspects of law became a crucial mechanism in the expansion of British influence, as is to be seen in the struggles over …
Islam and Democracy
debating electoral involvement on the Kenya coastIn the Kenyan coastal town of Kilifi, an unobtrusive green sign is nailed to a telegraph pole in the market place.Painted on it, in neat white letters, are the words Demokrasi ni ukafiri: 'Democracy is unbelief'.It is a brief statement of one view in a complex debate amongst Muslims in Kenya, about the nature of their collective relationship with the secular state and its elected bodies.In the run-…
Preaching politics
Focusing on the Kenya coast, this article analyses the developing contrast between the place of Islam and Christianity in public politics. It argues that Islam’s association with criticism of the political order contrasts with Christianity, but that this is not the result of inherent difference between the religions. Both have previously provided a language, and space, for political commentary and activism in Kenya. The contrast is rather the con…
Kenya’s Coast
In January 2019, Kenya’s already crowded political landscape was joined by another new party. The Umoja Summit Political Party was, avowedly, a party for the coast “formed on the basis of bringing back the elusive unity of the region,” as its founder declared. Observers might have been forgiven for regarding this initiative with scepticism. Following the general elections of 2013 there had been a series of meetings amongst a slightly shifting cas…
Islam, politics, and violence on the Kenya coast
In June 2014, the Kenyan coastal town of Mpeketoni was the target of a brutal and prolonged terrorist attack, in which dozens of civilians were murdered. In the aftermath of the attack, there were apparently widely differing analyses of its nature and purpose. After a delay, the Somali-based al-Shabaab movement claimed responsibility. However, the government of Kenya insisted that it had actually been the result of ‘local politics’ – thought it w…
Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa
Situated at the junction of the Sahel-Saharan strip and the Arabian Peninsula, the Horn of Africa is growing in global importance due to demographic growth and the strategic importance of the Suez Canal. Divided into sections on authoritarianism and resistance, religion and politics, migration, economic integration, the military, and regimes and liberation, the contributors provide up-to-date, authoritative knowledge on the region in light of con…
Integrationism vs. rejectionism
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kenya’s coastal region saw the rise of Islamist activism(s). Revisiting this rise, this article traces the history of two contrasting politico-religious groups seeking to address the historical marginalisation of Kenyan Muslim communities: the Mombasa-based Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) and the southern coastal Ansar Sunnah movement. While the IPK accepted the Kenyan nation-state and sought to empower Kenya’s Mus…
Governance and Islam in East Africa
Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim theology, rituals and general welfare. Both these approaches are covered in this book, and a third is added – the study of Muslims as citizens or residents of their respective countries, looking at their activities and attitudes …
Religious Plurality in Africa
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · African history and culture analysis (9 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works)