Competing Muslim legacies along city/countryside dichotomies
Another political history of Harar Town and its Oromo rural neighbours in Eastern Ethiopia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5017616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Osmond (Centre Français des Études Éthiopiennes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x13000803 |
| OpenAlex | W2126580527 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
Between the Middle East and Eastern Africa, the city of Harar is often considered as the main historical centre of Islam in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Until recently, the cultural hegemony of the Muslim elites inhabiting Harar was commonly opposed to the almost pagan behaviours of the Oromo - or 'Galla' - farmers and cattle herders living in the wide rural vicinity of the town. The 1995 Constitution provided the different 'ethnolinguistic nationalities' of the new Ethiopian federation with the same institutional recognition. However, the institutionalisation of the two Harari and Oromo 'nationalities' seems to foster the historical duality between the city-dwellers and their close neighbours. This article proposes another political history of Harar and its ambivalent Oromo partners through the local dynamics of the Muslim city/countryside models. It reveals the both competing and complementary orders that have probably bound together the populations of Harar and its rural hinterland for more than five hundred years
Archaeology · Dichotomy · Ethnology · Geography · Hegemony · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · African Studies and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
A short History of the Argobba
Muslim Ethiopia
Extract Report on the Probable Geographical Position of Harrar; With Some Information Relative to the Various Tribes in the Vicinity
Ethnic Federalism
Harär Town and its Neighbours in the Nineteenth Century
La cité comme statut politique
Imagined communities
The Oromo of Ethiopia
The Articulation of Religious Identities and their Boundaries in Ethiopia
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Being and Becoming Oromo
Urban Life
Saints of the Atlas
Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |