Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa-a Perspective

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ID5154159
AuthorsAzim Nanji (1Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume6
Issue2
Pages123-139
Publication date1974-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006674x00031
OpenAlexW1985081830
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The aspirations and problems of contemporary Muslims both in Africa and elsewhere have been variously formulated as challenge of the Modem Age to the modernization of technologically backward and traditional societies, or in even broader terms as a tension that is by no means peculiar to Islam. 1) Whereas the varied uses of terminology to express properly the nature of the problem may be questioned, we can agree in principle that since the onset of the so-called period of modernization, there has come about in the minds of concerned Muslims a certain new motivation. 2) This has led them to consider and evaluate Islam, as they had come to believe in it and practice it, in terms of their ability to revitalize their faith, in dealing with the emerging existential situation. 3) This essay, then, is concerned largely with analyzing this motivation as it has been reflected within the Nizari Ismaili community of East Africa and relating this to the wider issue of the processes by which a specific Muslim group has been able to effect change. The

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Existentialism · Faith · Islam · Linguistics · Modernization theory · Period (music) · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sociology · Terminology · Theology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Education and Islamic Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria

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