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Mawlūd Tradition, Reformist Dynamics and State Policies in East Ethiopia. The Controversial Celebrations of Prophet Muḥammad in Harar and among Its Oromo Neighbours

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ID19340593
AuthorsThomas Osmond (corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume34
Issue1
Pages167-195
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnales d Ethiopie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-2127 • E-ISSN: 2077-0820
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/ethio.2022.1716
OpenAlexW4381141001
LanguageEN
Citations received1

This contribution questions the socio-historical dynamics of Mawlūd celebrations in Harar and its rural vicinity in the Oromiya Eastern Hararghe Zone. This work is the result of ethnographic investigations conducted in the first half of the 2010s while Ethiopian authorities attempted to impose a state version of Islam that was based on the controversial al-Ahbash doctrine. From the theological ambivalence of the Mawlūd corpuses in the Harari city and its rural Oromo surroundings, to its contemporary revivals in a regional context marked by ethno-national competition and Islamic reformism, this study reveals the plural stakes and still debated practices of Prophet Muḥammad’s celebrations in these eastern territories of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

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