Liazzat J K Bonate
Biographic Data
| ID | 680922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liazzat J K Bonate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liazzat J K |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonate |
| SIGNATURE | BONATE L J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eduardo Mondlane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6958-5313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Jihadi Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: Ideology, Protagonists and Causes
Based on fieldwork interviews with the internally displaced Muslims from the regions affected by the insurgency, such as Palma, Mocímboa da Praia, Macomia, Quissanga and others, this article unpacks the context, ideology and protagonists that gave rise and afforded sustenance to the insurgency in Cabo Delgado. After providing an overview of the historical trajectory of Islam in Mozambique, the article presents the ideological and historical under…
God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
In 2017 a 'new war', characterised as a jihadist insurgency, erupted in the northerly Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.The war began in the context of the discovery of new natural resources, the setting up of transnational extractive industries and of an economic crisis generated by the 'hidden debt' scandal. Harsh military responses from the Mozambican government and international actors - SADC and Rwanda especially - have not halted the insu…
Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Eric Morier-Genoud, Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique (London: Hurst & Co, 2023), 240 pp., ISBN: 9781805260431 This is a collection of previously published articles addressing the relationship between the post-colonial state under the Frelimo government and Muslims of Mozambique. The book aims at understanding the state's policies towards religion and secularity, the formation of Muslim elites and counter-elites, and …
Conceito de Estado Islâmico de acordo com quatro ideólogos de islamismo de século XX
Este artigo examina quatro teorias de Estado Islâmico elaboradas por ideólogos de islamismo do século XX, três dos quais sendo sunitas, Abū al-Aʿlā Mawdūdī (1903-1979), Fazlur Raḥmān, (1919-1988), Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932-2016), e um xiita, o āyatollāh Sayyid Rūhollāh Mūsawī Khomeinī (1902-1989). O artigo analisa como esses autores articulam o conceito de Estado Islâmico, como definem esse tipo de Estado e as suas características e qual o papel atri…
Jihadismo transnacional e a insurgência em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique
Este artigo visa analisar o conflito de Cabo Delgado sob o prisma do jihadismo transnacional, uma ideologia e um movimento político que se apoderam de demandas e agravos locais, sobretudo contra o Estado, despoletando a insurgência ou canalizando a resistência já existente. O conflito representa também uma resistência contra a ordem mundial dominada pelo Ocidente. A primeira parte do artigo se debruça sobre o conceito e a história do jihadismo tr…
Muslim Family in Northern Mozambique: Sharīʿa, Matriliny and the Official Legislation in Paquitequete
Although Islam has a long history in coastal northern Mozambique, the question of how Muslims manage family life there is little understood. Based on the analysis of historical, ethnographic and legal records, and a case study of a bairro (Port., ward) called Paquitequete in the contemporary coastal city of Pemba in Cabo Delgado province, this article focuses on Muslim family and gender relations in northern Mozambique. It argues that Muslims of …
Connections and comparisons: Region and the world in framing early modern Southeast Asian history
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Islam and matriliny along the Indian Ocean rim: Revisiting the old 'paradox' by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique
The coexistence of Islam and matriliny has been viewed as a 'paradox' because of strict patriliny that Islam prescribes. This article attempts to disentangle this enigma by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique that represent the most well-known cases of simultaneous practice of Islam and matrilineal kinship, which initially was a result of peaceful Islamisation through Indian Ocean networks. In the nineteenth century,…
Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards
Islam and Literacy in Northern Mozambique: Historical Records on the Secular Uses of the Arabic Script
The Advent and Schisms of Sufi Orders in Mozambique, 1896–1964
Sufi identity and rituals became widespread among local Muslims during the colonial era due to the expansion of the Shadhuliyya and the Qadiriyya orders. But the history of Sufism in Mozambique has been little explored. Portuguese colonial officials began paying closer attention to Islam in general and Sufism in particular only toward the end of the colonial period, especially in the late 1960s. This sudden interest was prompted by the independen…
Documents in Arabic Script at the Mozambique Historical Archives
It is generally assumed that most of the correspondence between African rulers along the Mozambican coast and the Portuguese had occurred in Arabic script or in Ajami from the time when the Portuguese first came (1498) until the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also presumed that this correspondence is abundantly documented in the archives of Portugal, India (in particular Goa), East Africa, Madagascar, and Mozambique. However, research …
Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre‐Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and to a certain extent, Niassa provinces. The article argues that historical and geographical proximity of these regions to East African coast, the Comoros and northern Madagascar meant that all these regions shared a common Islami…
Transformations de l'islam à Pemba au Mozambique
Cet article analyse les récentes transformations de l’islam dans la ville de Pemba au Mozambique à travers le prisme de l’économie morale. Une modification des conceptions et pratiques islamiques s’est opérée au sein des communautés musulmanes, africaine comme indienne, suite à l’établissement dans la ville d’une ONG islamique transnationale, l’Africa Muslim Agency (AMA) en 1987. Une nouvelle génération de leaders islamiques a émergé et défié l’a…
Muslims of northern Mozambique and the liberation movements
Despite the fact that the liberation war occurred in northern Mozambique, where a considerable number of Muslims lived, their contribution to the independence struggle has been little studied. This paper focusses on their participation in two nationalist liberation movements, Mozambican African National Union (MANU) and Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), and demonstrates that the prevailing idea in scholarship about Muslims’ aloofness …
Muslim Religious Leadership in Post-Colonial Mozambique
Based on archival and fieldwork research, this paper outlines in its first part the history of the formation of various types of Muslim religious leaderships during pre-colonial and colonial periods. Islam in Mozambique, especially in the northern part of the country, existed among Africans long before the arrival of the Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was linked to the World of Swahili, i.e. the East African coast and the…
The use of the Arabic script in northern Mozambique
Northern Mozambican Muslim population has been using the Arabic script for writing in KiSwahili and local African languages for centuries. Even today, many people continue using this script in private correspondence. Despite the abundance of the documents in this script that are housed at the Mozambique Historical Archives as well as in private hands, these documents have never been addressed or researched either from linguistic, historical, cult…
A teoria do "encerramento do Ijtihad" no direito islâmico
O postulado da jurisprudência islâmica clássica sobre o “encerramento dos portões do ijtihad”, ou a teoria da abdicação da aplicação do raciocínio humano para a extrapolação da lei a partir das escrituras sagradas, foi indicado por orientalistas como uma das razões da alegada incapacidade das sociedades islâmicas de acompanhar o desenvolvimento moderno, do qual o Ocidente desfrutava. O fecho do ijtihad pareceu ser a causa plausível da aparente es…
Roots of Diversity in Mozambican Islam
This paper explores historical roots for the existing diversity of the conceptions of Islam among African Sunni Muslims of Mozambique. This diversity is frequently expressed by internal Muslim debates and competitions centred on the nature of Islamic authority and on the definition of ‘orthodoxy.’ After identifying roughly three divergent conceptions of Islamic authority and ritual among Mozambican Muslims, the author analyses specific historical…
Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique
Using gender as the major line of difference, the paper examines the diversity within Islam in northern Mozambique, in which, despite strong historical ties to the Swahili world and waves of Islamic expansion, as well as attempts to establish and police an Islamic 'orthodoxy', matriliny continues to be one of the main cultural features. Concentrating on two coastal regions, Mozambique Island and Angoche, and on three urban zones of the modern pro…
Dispute over Islamic Funeral Rites in Mozambique
Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique
Using gender as the major line of difference, the paper examines the diversity within Islam in northern Mozambique, in which, despite strong historical ties to the Swahili world and waves of Islamic expansion, as well as attempts to establish and police an Islamic 'orthodoxy', matriliny continues to be one of the main cultural features. Concentrating on two coastal regions, Mozambique Island and Angoche, and on three urban zones of the modern pro…
Roots of Diversity in Mozambican Islam
This paper explores historical roots for the existing diversity of the conceptions of Islam among African Sunni Muslims of Mozambique. This diversity is frequently expressed by internal Muslim debates and competitions centred on the nature of Islamic authority and on the definition of ‘orthodoxy.’ After identifying roughly three divergent conceptions of Islamic authority and ritual among Mozambican Muslims, the author analyses specific historical…
Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre‐Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and to a certain extent, Niassa provinces. The article argues that historical and geographical proximity of these regions to East African coast, the Comoros and northern Madagascar meant that all these regions shared a common Islami…
The Advent and Schisms of Sufi Orders in Mozambique, 1896–1964
Sufi identity and rituals became widespread among local Muslims during the colonial era due to the expansion of the Shadhuliyya and the Qadiriyya orders. But the history of Sufism in Mozambique has been little explored. Portuguese colonial officials began paying closer attention to Islam in general and Sufism in particular only toward the end of the colonial period, especially in the late 1960s. This sudden interest was prompted by the independen…
Muslims of northern Mozambique and the liberation movements
Despite the fact that the liberation war occurred in northern Mozambique, where a considerable number of Muslims lived, their contribution to the independence struggle has been little studied. This paper focusses on their participation in two nationalist liberation movements, Mozambican African National Union (MANU) and Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), and demonstrates that the prevailing idea in scholarship about Muslims’ aloofness …
Muslim Religious Leadership in Post-Colonial Mozambique
Based on archival and fieldwork research, this paper outlines in its first part the history of the formation of various types of Muslim religious leaderships during pre-colonial and colonial periods. Islam in Mozambique, especially in the northern part of the country, existed among Africans long before the arrival of the Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was linked to the World of Swahili, i.e. the East African coast and the…
Islam and matriliny along the Indian Ocean rim: Revisiting the old 'paradox' by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique
The coexistence of Islam and matriliny has been viewed as a 'paradox' because of strict patriliny that Islam prescribes. This article attempts to disentangle this enigma by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique that represent the most well-known cases of simultaneous practice of Islam and matrilineal kinship, which initially was a result of peaceful Islamisation through Indian Ocean networks. In the nineteenth century,…
Dispute over Islamic Funeral Rites in Mozambique
Jihadismo transnacional e a insurgência em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique
Este artigo visa analisar o conflito de Cabo Delgado sob o prisma do jihadismo transnacional, uma ideologia e um movimento político que se apoderam de demandas e agravos locais, sobretudo contra o Estado, despoletando a insurgência ou canalizando a resistência já existente. O conflito representa também uma resistência contra a ordem mundial dominada pelo Ocidente. A primeira parte do artigo se debruça sobre o conceito e a história do jihadismo tr…
Transformations de l'islam à Pemba au Mozambique
Cet article analyse les récentes transformations de l’islam dans la ville de Pemba au Mozambique à travers le prisme de l’économie morale. Une modification des conceptions et pratiques islamiques s’est opérée au sein des communautés musulmanes, africaine comme indienne, suite à l’établissement dans la ville d’une ONG islamique transnationale, l’Africa Muslim Agency (AMA) en 1987. Une nouvelle génération de leaders islamiques a émergé et défié l’a…
Islam and Literacy in Northern Mozambique: Historical Records on the Secular Uses of the Arabic Script
Documents in Arabic Script at the Mozambique Historical Archives
It is generally assumed that most of the correspondence between African rulers along the Mozambican coast and the Portuguese had occurred in Arabic script or in Ajami from the time when the Portuguese first came (1498) until the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also presumed that this correspondence is abundantly documented in the archives of Portugal, India (in particular Goa), East Africa, Madagascar, and Mozambique. However, research …
Dispute over Islamic Funeral Rites in Mozambique
Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique
Using gender as the major line of difference, the paper examines the diversity within Islam in northern Mozambique, in which, despite strong historical ties to the Swahili world and waves of Islamic expansion, as well as attempts to establish and police an Islamic 'orthodoxy', matriliny continues to be one of the main cultural features. Concentrating on two coastal regions, Mozambique Island and Angoche, and on three urban zones of the modern pro…
Roots of Diversity in Mozambican Islam
This paper explores historical roots for the existing diversity of the conceptions of Islam among African Sunni Muslims of Mozambique. This diversity is frequently expressed by internal Muslim debates and competitions centred on the nature of Islamic authority and on the definition of ‘orthodoxy.’ After identifying roughly three divergent conceptions of Islamic authority and ritual among Mozambican Muslims, the author analyses specific historical…
Muslim Religious Leadership in Post-Colonial Mozambique
Based on archival and fieldwork research, this paper outlines in its first part the history of the formation of various types of Muslim religious leaderships during pre-colonial and colonial periods. Islam in Mozambique, especially in the northern part of the country, existed among Africans long before the arrival of the Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It was linked to the World of Swahili, i.e. the East African coast and the…
The use of the Arabic script in northern Mozambique
Northern Mozambican Muslim population has been using the Arabic script for writing in KiSwahili and local African languages for centuries. Even today, many people continue using this script in private correspondence. Despite the abundance of the documents in this script that are housed at the Mozambique Historical Archives as well as in private hands, these documents have never been addressed or researched either from linguistic, historical, cult…
A teoria do "encerramento do Ijtihad" no direito islâmico
O postulado da jurisprudência islâmica clássica sobre o “encerramento dos portões do ijtihad”, ou a teoria da abdicação da aplicação do raciocínio humano para a extrapolação da lei a partir das escrituras sagradas, foi indicado por orientalistas como uma das razões da alegada incapacidade das sociedades islâmicas de acompanhar o desenvolvimento moderno, do qual o Ocidente desfrutava. O fecho do ijtihad pareceu ser a causa plausível da aparente es…
Transformations de l'islam à Pemba au Mozambique
Cet article analyse les récentes transformations de l’islam dans la ville de Pemba au Mozambique à travers le prisme de l’économie morale. Une modification des conceptions et pratiques islamiques s’est opérée au sein des communautés musulmanes, africaine comme indienne, suite à l’établissement dans la ville d’une ONG islamique transnationale, l’Africa Muslim Agency (AMA) en 1987. Une nouvelle génération de leaders islamiques a émergé et défié l’a…
Muslims of northern Mozambique and the liberation movements
Despite the fact that the liberation war occurred in northern Mozambique, where a considerable number of Muslims lived, their contribution to the independence struggle has been little studied. This paper focusses on their participation in two nationalist liberation movements, Mozambican African National Union (MANU) and Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), and demonstrates that the prevailing idea in scholarship about Muslims’ aloofness …
Documents in Arabic Script at the Mozambique Historical Archives
It is generally assumed that most of the correspondence between African rulers along the Mozambican coast and the Portuguese had occurred in Arabic script or in Ajami from the time when the Portuguese first came (1498) until the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also presumed that this correspondence is abundantly documented in the archives of Portugal, India (in particular Goa), East Africa, Madagascar, and Mozambique. However, research …
Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre‐Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and to a certain extent, Niassa provinces. The article argues that historical and geographical proximity of these regions to East African coast, the Comoros and northern Madagascar meant that all these regions shared a common Islami…
The Advent and Schisms of Sufi Orders in Mozambique, 1896–1964
Sufi identity and rituals became widespread among local Muslims during the colonial era due to the expansion of the Shadhuliyya and the Qadiriyya orders. But the history of Sufism in Mozambique has been little explored. Portuguese colonial officials began paying closer attention to Islam in general and Sufism in particular only toward the end of the colonial period, especially in the late 1960s. This sudden interest was prompted by the independen…
Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards
Islam and Literacy in Northern Mozambique: Historical Records on the Secular Uses of the Arabic Script
Connections and comparisons: Region and the world in framing early modern Southeast Asian history
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Islam and matriliny along the Indian Ocean rim: Revisiting the old 'paradox' by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique
The coexistence of Islam and matriliny has been viewed as a 'paradox' because of strict patriliny that Islam prescribes. This article attempts to disentangle this enigma by comparing the Minangkabau, Kerala and coastal northern Mozambique that represent the most well-known cases of simultaneous practice of Islam and matrilineal kinship, which initially was a result of peaceful Islamisation through Indian Ocean networks. In the nineteenth century,…
Muslim Family in Northern Mozambique: Sharīʿa, Matriliny and the Official Legislation in Paquitequete
Although Islam has a long history in coastal northern Mozambique, the question of how Muslims manage family life there is little understood. Based on the analysis of historical, ethnographic and legal records, and a case study of a bairro (Port., ward) called Paquitequete in the contemporary coastal city of Pemba in Cabo Delgado province, this article focuses on Muslim family and gender relations in northern Mozambique. It argues that Muslims of …
Jihadismo transnacional e a insurgência em Cabo Delgado, Moçambique
Este artigo visa analisar o conflito de Cabo Delgado sob o prisma do jihadismo transnacional, uma ideologia e um movimento político que se apoderam de demandas e agravos locais, sobretudo contra o Estado, despoletando a insurgência ou canalizando a resistência já existente. O conflito representa também uma resistência contra a ordem mundial dominada pelo Ocidente. A primeira parte do artigo se debruça sobre o conceito e a história do jihadismo tr…
Conceito de Estado Islâmico de acordo com quatro ideólogos de islamismo de século XX
Este artigo examina quatro teorias de Estado Islâmico elaboradas por ideólogos de islamismo do século XX, três dos quais sendo sunitas, Abū al-Aʿlā Mawdūdī (1903-1979), Fazlur Raḥmān, (1919-1988), Ḥasan al-Turābī (1932-2016), e um xiita, o āyatollāh Sayyid Rūhollāh Mūsawī Khomeinī (1902-1989). O artigo analisa como esses autores articulam o conceito de Estado Islâmico, como definem esse tipo de Estado e as suas características e qual o papel atri…
The Jihadi Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: Ideology, Protagonists and Causes
Based on fieldwork interviews with the internally displaced Muslims from the regions affected by the insurgency, such as Palma, Mocímboa da Praia, Macomia, Quissanga and others, this article unpacks the context, ideology and protagonists that gave rise and afforded sustenance to the insurgency in Cabo Delgado. After providing an overview of the historical trajectory of Islam in Mozambique, the article presents the ideological and historical under…
God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
In 2017 a 'new war', characterised as a jihadist insurgency, erupted in the northerly Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.The war began in the context of the discovery of new natural resources, the setting up of transnational extractive industries and of an economic crisis generated by the 'hidden debt' scandal. Harsh military responses from the Mozambican government and international actors - SADC and Rwanda especially - have not halted the insu…
Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Eric Morier-Genoud, Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique (London: Hurst & Co, 2023), 240 pp., ISBN: 9781805260431 This is a collection of previously published articles addressing the relationship between the post-colonial state under the Frelimo government and Muslims of Mozambique. The book aims at understanding the state's policies towards religion and secularity, the formation of Muslim elites and counter-elites, and …
Political science (17 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (15 works) · History (15 works) · Islam (15 works) · African history and culture analysis (14 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · History (11 works)