Roman Loimeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 191698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roman Loimeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roman |
| FAMILY NAME | Loimeier |
| SIGNATURE | LOIMEIER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bayreuth, the Centre of Modern Oriental Studies in Berlin, and the University of Florida (Gainesville). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Prophètes en Armes! Des «violences religieuses» en Afrique, written by Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
Burger, Lisa, Tim Burger und David Sumerauer (Hrsg.): Inspirationen. Über die Entstehung ethnologischen Denkens
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, L'Islam d'Afrique: Au-delà du djihad
Muslim Scholars, Organic Intellectuals, and the Development of Islamic Education in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century
India Beyond India: The Indian Diaspora in East Africa
Issues of communitarian organization, identity, and belonging have long informed the history of the subcontinent (today India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), and they continue to do so. Prominent examples include the muhjirn in Karachi / Sindh, Hindu-Muslim strife in Gujarat, temple and mosque disputes in Uttar Pradesh and other regions, and ethnic conflict throughout the subcontinent. 1 Communitarian organization, identity and belo…
Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya)
This chapter introduces Tanganyika (since 1964 Tanzania) as the regional context for the emergence of both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements of reform. It shows that neither movement of reform was monolithic but characterized by multiple splits informed by generational dynamics as well as family disputes. The chapter presents Sufi-oriented movements of reform as the first movements of reform in Tanganyika and explains why Salafi-oriented groups…
Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros)
This chapter introduces Zanzibar as the regional context for the emergence of both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements of reform. Zanzibar’s history since the late 19 th century was informed by the emergence of an Omani political aristocracy and the development of a reform movement led by religious scholars of the Alawiyya Sufi order as well as reform-minded scholars such as Abdallah Salih al-Farsy. The revolution in Zanzibar in January 1964 not …
Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan AfricaBased on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local…
The Homeland is the Arena. Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America, written by Ousmane Oumar Kane, 2011
Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Chronique bibliographique: Planification urbaine, identification raciale et violence à Zanzibar
Le Premier ministre éthiopien Meles Zenawi est décédé en août 2012, privant le FDRPE – à la tête de l’État depuis 1991 – de son leader historique. Fruit d’un compromis, la nomination du protégé de Meles Zenawi, Hailémariam Dessalegn, marque la poursuite de son œuvre. La continuité du régime ne saurait néanmoins cacher des tensions plus profondes : celles liées à la survie de toute une classe politique à la tête d’un pays dont la stabilité à moyen…
Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria
Since 2009, the radical Muslim movement in northern Nigeria known as Boko Haram has become widely known in Western media for both its militant actions and its ultra-fundamentalist programme. This analysis examines Boko Haram from a historical perspective, viewing the movement as a result of social, political and generational dynamics within the larger field of northern Nigerian radical Islam. The contribution also considers some of the theologica…
By noon prayer. The rhythm of Islam by el-Guindi, Fadwa
Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal
When I visited Senegal for the first time in the summer of 1981, I came to see a country that was very much under the bane of Leopold Sedar Senghor1 and the influence of two major Sufi orders, the Muridiyya and the Tijaniyya. Political discussions were dominated by the hegemonic Parti Socialiste (PS), and Le Soleil was Senegal’s major and only daily paper. Contemporary mondialisation (globalization) had not yet really reached Senegal. In many res…
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th century Zanzibar
The present volume is a pioneering study of the development of Islamic traditions of learning in 20th century Zanzibar and the role of Muslim scholars in society and politics, based on extensive fieldwork and archival research in Zanzibar (2001-2007). The volume highlights the dynamics of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar, focussing on the contribution of Sufi scholars (Qādiriyya, ʿAlawiyya) as well …
Perceptions of Marginalization: Muslims in Contemporary Tanzania
African countries with Muslim populations can be divided into three categories. In countries of the first kind, such as Senegal, Muslims form a clear and undisputed majority of the population. Religion (Islam) is an accepted part of daily life, and there are no major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims. National conflicts are mostly related to political, economic, social, ethnic, or communal issues and do not necessarily acquire religious c…
Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed
Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable Muslim populations were experiencing significant transformations in the relationship between religion and state. Political Islam in West Africa explores those ongoing transformations in key countries of the Sahel region. Each country chapter provides both historica…
Translocal networks of saints and the negotiation of religious disputes in local contexts
Les exemples de Shaykh Nasiru Kabar et Shaykh Uways montrent que des liens trans-locaux avec le centre spirituel de la tarîqa, tels que Bagdad dans le cas de la Qâdiriyya, peuvent être cultivés pour différentes raisons. Cependant, les exemples de Nasiru Kabara et Shaykh Uways montrent également que les conditions et les contextes locaux sont très importants dans le développement de mouvements religieux, en particulier lorsque l'on considère la fa…
Translating the Qur'ān in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dynamics and Disputes
In the last decades, African Muslim societies have experienced multiple processes of modernization, as, for instance, in the sphere of education. As a consequence, the number of African Muslims literate in African languages has grown tremendously and so has the number of texts, including religious texts, published in these languages. At the same time, the Qur'ān has been translated into many African languages, and these translations of the Qur'ān…
"Is there something like "Protestant Islam
Patterns and Peculiarities of Islamic Reform in Africa
African Muslim societies were characterised, in the 20th century, by the emergence of reformist movements that have gained, since the 1970s, major social, religious and political influence in a number of countries, including Northern Nigeria, Senegal, Zanzibar and Sudan. These movements of reform are, however, not recent phenomena. Rather, they look back to a history of several generations of reformist endeavour and thought that may have been inf…
L'Islam Ne Se Vend Plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal1
L'objectif de cet article est d'illustrer, par l'exemple du Senegal, comment l'on peut integrer reforme islamique et mouvements d'opposition dans la structure politique et sociale d'une societe, et cela d'une maniere assez pacifique. Au Senegal donc, la premiere generation de reformateurs musulmans apparut au debut des annees 1950, et l'«Union Culturelle Musulmane» fut fondee par Cheikh Toure en 1953, puis progressivement integree dans les struct…
L'Islam ne se vend plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal
Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria
Since 2009, the radical Muslim movement in northern Nigeria known as Boko Haram has become widely known in Western media for both its militant actions and its ultra-fundamentalist programme. This analysis examines Boko Haram from a historical perspective, viewing the movement as a result of social, political and generational dynamics within the larger field of northern Nigerian radical Islam. The contribution also considers some of the theologica…
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th century Zanzibar
The present volume is a pioneering study of the development of Islamic traditions of learning in 20th century Zanzibar and the role of Muslim scholars in society and politics, based on extensive fieldwork and archival research in Zanzibar (2001-2007). The volume highlights the dynamics of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar, focussing on the contribution of Sufi scholars (Qādiriyya, ʿAlawiyya) as well …
Patterns and Peculiarities of Islamic Reform in Africa
African Muslim societies were characterised, in the 20th century, by the emergence of reformist movements that have gained, since the 1970s, major social, religious and political influence in a number of countries, including Northern Nigeria, Senegal, Zanzibar and Sudan. These movements of reform are, however, not recent phenomena. Rather, they look back to a history of several generations of reformist endeavour and thought that may have been inf…
"Is there something like "Protestant Islam
Translating the Qur'ān in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dynamics and Disputes
In the last decades, African Muslim societies have experienced multiple processes of modernization, as, for instance, in the sphere of education. As a consequence, the number of African Muslims literate in African languages has grown tremendously and so has the number of texts, including religious texts, published in these languages. At the same time, the Qur'ān has been translated into many African languages, and these translations of the Qur'ān…
L'Islam Ne Se Vend Plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal1
L'objectif de cet article est d'illustrer, par l'exemple du Senegal, comment l'on peut integrer reforme islamique et mouvements d'opposition dans la structure politique et sociale d'une societe, et cela d'une maniere assez pacifique. Au Senegal donc, la premiere generation de reformateurs musulmans apparut au debut des annees 1950, et l'«Union Culturelle Musulmane» fut fondee par Cheikh Toure en 1953, puis progressivement integree dans les struct…
L'Islam ne se vend plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal
Zur Dynamik Religiös-Politischer Netzwerke in Muslimischen Gesellschaften
vielfailtigen Prozessen religi6ser Mobilisierung, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten das soziale und politische Leben vieler muslimischer Gesellschaften veriindert haben. Die Einordnung dieser Prozesse in giingige Theorien von Modernisierung und abhangiger Entwicklung, von strukturellem Wandel und Siikularisierung wirft nach wie vor gro1fe Probleme auf. Ebenso entziehen sie sich den verbreiteten Vorstellungen fiber ,,traditionelle Gesellschaften. Der…
Zur Dynamik Religiös-Politischer Netzwerke in Muslimischen Gesellschaften
vielfailtigen Prozessen religi6ser Mobilisierung, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten das soziale und politische Leben vieler muslimischer Gesellschaften veriindert haben. Die Einordnung dieser Prozesse in giingige Theorien von Modernisierung und abhangiger Entwicklung, von strukturellem Wandel und Siikularisierung wirft nach wie vor gro1fe Probleme auf. Ebenso entziehen sie sich den verbreiteten Vorstellungen fiber ,,traditionelle Gesellschaften. Der…
Islam et islamismes au sud du Sahara
L'Islam Ne Se Vend Plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal1
L'objectif de cet article est d'illustrer, par l'exemple du Senegal, comment l'on peut integrer reforme islamique et mouvements d'opposition dans la structure politique et sociale d'une societe, et cela d'une maniere assez pacifique. Au Senegal donc, la premiere generation de reformateurs musulmans apparut au debut des annees 1950, et l'«Union Culturelle Musulmane» fut fondee par Cheikh Toure en 1953, puis progressivement integree dans les struct…
L'Islam ne se vend plus: The Islamic Reform Movement and the State in Senegal
Patterns and Peculiarities of Islamic Reform in Africa
African Muslim societies were characterised, in the 20th century, by the emergence of reformist movements that have gained, since the 1970s, major social, religious and political influence in a number of countries, including Northern Nigeria, Senegal, Zanzibar and Sudan. These movements of reform are, however, not recent phenomena. Rather, they look back to a history of several generations of reformist endeavour and thought that may have been inf…
Translating the Qur'ān in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dynamics and Disputes
In the last decades, African Muslim societies have experienced multiple processes of modernization, as, for instance, in the sphere of education. As a consequence, the number of African Muslims literate in African languages has grown tremendously and so has the number of texts, including religious texts, published in these languages. At the same time, the Qur'ān has been translated into many African languages, and these translations of the Qur'ān…
"Is there something like "Protestant Islam
Translocal networks of saints and the negotiation of religious disputes in local contexts
Les exemples de Shaykh Nasiru Kabar et Shaykh Uways montrent que des liens trans-locaux avec le centre spirituel de la tarîqa, tels que Bagdad dans le cas de la Qâdiriyya, peuvent être cultivés pour différentes raisons. Cependant, les exemples de Nasiru Kabara et Shaykh Uways montrent également que les conditions et les contextes locaux sont très importants dans le développement de mouvements religieux, en particulier lorsque l'on considère la fa…
Perceptions of Marginalization: Muslims in Contemporary Tanzania
African countries with Muslim populations can be divided into three categories. In countries of the first kind, such as Senegal, Muslims form a clear and undisputed majority of the population. Religion (Islam) is an accepted part of daily life, and there are no major conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslims. National conflicts are mostly related to political, economic, social, ethnic, or communal issues and do not necessarily acquire religious c…
Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed
Long before the September 11 attacks galvanized Western attention on what has variously been called political Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, and Islamism, African nations with sizeable Muslim populations were experiencing significant transformations in the relationship between religion and state. Political Islam in West Africa explores those ongoing transformations in key countries of the Sahel region. Each country chapter provides both historica…
Dialectics of Religion and Politics in Senegal
When I visited Senegal for the first time in the summer of 1981, I came to see a country that was very much under the bane of Leopold Sedar Senghor1 and the influence of two major Sufi orders, the Muridiyya and the Tijaniyya. Political discussions were dominated by the hegemonic Parti Socialiste (PS), and Le Soleil was Senegal’s major and only daily paper. Contemporary mondialisation (globalization) had not yet really reached Senegal. In many res…
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills: The Politics of Islamic Education in 20th century Zanzibar
The present volume is a pioneering study of the development of Islamic traditions of learning in 20th century Zanzibar and the role of Muslim scholars in society and politics, based on extensive fieldwork and archival research in Zanzibar (2001-2007). The volume highlights the dynamics of Muslim traditions of reform in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Zanzibar, focussing on the contribution of Sufi scholars (Qādiriyya, ʿAlawiyya) as well …
By noon prayer. The rhythm of Islam by el-Guindi, Fadwa
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Chronique bibliographique: Planification urbaine, identification raciale et violence à Zanzibar
Le Premier ministre éthiopien Meles Zenawi est décédé en août 2012, privant le FDRPE – à la tête de l’État depuis 1991 – de son leader historique. Fruit d’un compromis, la nomination du protégé de Meles Zenawi, Hailémariam Dessalegn, marque la poursuite de son œuvre. La continuité du régime ne saurait néanmoins cacher des tensions plus profondes : celles liées à la survie de toute une classe politique à la tête d’un pays dont la stabilité à moyen…
Boko Haram: The Development of a Militant Religious Movement in Nigeria
Since 2009, the radical Muslim movement in northern Nigeria known as Boko Haram has become widely known in Western media for both its militant actions and its ultra-fundamentalist programme. This analysis examines Boko Haram from a historical perspective, viewing the movement as a result of social, political and generational dynamics within the larger field of northern Nigerian radical Islam. The contribution also considers some of the theologica…
Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology
The Homeland is the Arena. Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America, written by Ousmane Oumar Kane, 2011
Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
Reform in Context IV: Tanganyika/Tanzania (and Kenya)
This chapter introduces Tanganyika (since 1964 Tanzania) as the regional context for the emergence of both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements of reform. It shows that neither movement of reform was monolithic but characterized by multiple splits informed by generational dynamics as well as family disputes. The chapter presents Sufi-oriented movements of reform as the first movements of reform in Tanganyika and explains why Salafi-oriented groups…
Reform in Context V: Zanzibar (and the Comoros)
This chapter introduces Zanzibar as the regional context for the emergence of both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements of reform. Zanzibar’s history since the late 19 th century was informed by the emergence of an Omani political aristocracy and the development of a reform movement led by religious scholars of the Alawiyya Sufi order as well as reform-minded scholars such as Abdallah Salih al-Farsy. The revolution in Zanzibar in January 1964 not …
Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
The first comprehensive analysis of Muslim movements of reform in modern sub-Saharan AfricaBased on twelve case studies (Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Comoros), this book looks at patterns and peculiarities of different traditions of Islamic reform. Considering both Sufi- and Salafi-oriented movements in their respective historical contexts, it stresses the importance of the local…
Muslim Scholars, Organic Intellectuals, and the Development of Islamic Education in Zanzibar in the Twentieth Century
India Beyond India: The Indian Diaspora in East Africa
Issues of communitarian organization, identity, and belonging have long informed the history of the subcontinent (today India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), and they continue to do so. Prominent examples include the muhjirn in Karachi / Sindh, Hindu-Muslim strife in Gujarat, temple and mosque disputes in Uttar Pradesh and other regions, and ethnic conflict throughout the subcontinent. 1 Communitarian organization, identity and belo…
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, L'Islam d'Afrique: Au-delà du djihad
Political science (21 works) · History (15 works) · Islam (15 works) · African history and culture analysis (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Geography (9 works)