Zanzibaris or Amakhuwa? Sufi Networks in South Africa, Mozambique, and the Indian Ocean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8978775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Preben Kaarsholm (0000-0002-7594-8766, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-210 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853714000085 |
| OpenAlex | W2153661019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article investigates the role of Sufi networks in keeping Durban's ‘Zanzibari’ community of African Muslims together and developing their response to social change and political developments from the 1950s to the post-apartheid period. It focuses on the importance of religion in giving meaning to notions of community, and discusses the importance of the Makua language in maintaining links with northern Mozambique and framing understandings of Islam. The transmission of ritual practices of the Rifaiyya, Qadiriyya, and Shadhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods is highlighted, as is the significance of Maputo as a node for such linkages. The article discusses change over time in notions of cosmopolitanism, diaspora, and belonging, and examines new types of interactions after 1994 between people identifying themselves as Amakhuwa in Durban and Mozambique
Cosmopolitanism · Diaspora · Ethnology · Framing (construction · Geography · Indian ocean · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
The Insurrectionist Moment
Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s
The Racialization of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
Durban and Cape Town as Port Cities
Moçambique Marítimo (séculos XIV - XXI)
From abolition of the slave trade to protection of immigrants
The Advent and Schisms of Sufi Orders in Mozambique, 1896–1964
The Tufo dance in Mozambique
Locating the Indian Ocean
Islam, secularist government, and state-civil society interaction in Mozambique and South Africa since 1994
Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour
Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa (African Studies)
African Islam and Islam in Africa
The Sufi Orders in Islam
Feasts and riot
New Religious Actors in South Africa
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000
Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique
Bombay Islam
The Makings of Indonesian Islam
Horn and Crescent
Sestina on Rock
Bombay Islam
From the Madrasah to the Museum
A Prospect of Secularization? Muslims and Political Power in Mozambique Today
Islam in Northern Mozambique
Gendered Narratives,” History, and Identity
Between Social Skills and Marketable Skills
Identity, Difference, and Dance
Domesticating the World
Sufis and Scholars of the Sea
Muslim Brotherhoods in Nineteenth-Century Africa
Constructions of Community and Identity Among Indians in Colonial Natal, 1860–1910
Dressing Up
Contesting ‘Orthodoxy
The Muslim Zanzibaris of South Africa
Zanzibari Islamic knowledge transmission revisited
Diaspora or transnational citizens? Indian Ocean networks and changing multiculturalisms in South Africa
Islam for the indentured Indian
Recollecting Africa
Islam in South Africa
Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)
Transnational Islam and Public Sphere Dynamics in Kwazulu-Natal
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |