Pub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101001
Kota Kariya
The Sokoto Caliphate, which was based on Islamic law, depended considerably on widespread systematic slavery in political, economic, and social spheres. According to Islamic law, it is only permitted, in principle, to enslave non-Muslims or unbelievers, and ʿUthmān b. Fūdī, the founder of the Caliphate, labeled his principal enemies (i.e. the rulers of the Hausa states and Bornu and their followers) as apostate unbelievers. However, Muslim jurists historically presented conflicting views regarding the permissibility of enslaving apostates. Faced with this legal disagreement, ʿUthmān, referring to numerous preceding scholars, argued that it was permissible to choose any one of several juristic views regarding a legal issue on which scholars disagreed. By the employment of this “free choice theory”, he justified the enslavement of those whom he labeled as apostates and consequently authorized the enslavement of all kinds of people whom he had categorized as unbelievers living in and around Hausaland.
建立在伊斯兰法律基础上的索科托哈里发在很大程度上依赖于在政治、经济和社会领域广泛存在的系统性奴隶制。根据伊斯兰教法，原则上只允许奴役非穆斯林或不信仰者，而哈里发的创始人阿卜杜拉Uthmān b. Fūdī将他的主要敌人(即豪萨州和博尔努的统治者及其追随者)称为叛教的不信仰者。然而，穆斯林法学家在历史上对是否允许奴役叛教者提出了相互矛盾的观点。面对这种法律上的分歧，伊拉Uthmān参考了许多先前的学者，认为对于学者们不同意的法律问题，可以选择几种法律观点中的任何一种。通过使用这种“自由选择理论”，他证明了对那些被他称为叛教者的人的奴役是正当的，因此授权对生活在豪萨兰及其周围的各种被他归类为不信教者的人进行奴役。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101003
Auwais Rafudeen
Reflecting on thoughts by Talal Asad, this paper suggests an approach to theorizing Sunniyat – the approach to Islam taken by those commonly called “Barelvis” – in South Africa by focusing on sensibilities and dispositions. It specifically examines the kinds of sensibilities that are cultivated by adherents in their relationship to the Prophet as well as in their practice of everyday ethics. The aim is to shed light on the embodied nature of these sensibilities and not just their discursive context. In Asad’s work, both dimensions are important, but discourse is a prelude to embodiment, with the latter constituting one’s mode of being in the world. In thinking about Sunniyat in this way, the works of Abdulkader Tayob and Seraj Hendricks provide important precedents for navigating both discursiveness and embodiment in a South African Muslim context.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101005
Lorenzo D’Angelo
{"title":"Alusine Jalloh, Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone","authors":"Lorenzo D’Angelo","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01101005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01101005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83185422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-24DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001010
S. MacEachern
{"title":"Thurston, Alexander, Boko Haram: The History of An African Jihadist Movement","authors":"S. MacEachern","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85467914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001015
A. Abushouk
{"title":"Professor Emeritus Rex Sean O’Fahey (d. 9 April 2019)","authors":"A. Abushouk","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88381226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001011
Nermeen Mouftah
{"title":"Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty, written by Hannah Hoechner","authors":"Nermeen Mouftah","doi":"10.1163/21540993-01001011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41507,"journal":{"name":"Islamic Africa","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85303259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001002
Sara Katz
This article discusses the debates about Islam and Muslim behavior in colonial Lagosian newspapers from the 1920s to the 1940s. It argues that the content of debates about Islam varied depending on the language in which they took place: while Islamic debates in English advocated reforming both Islam and Muslim behavior through practices that reflected British and Christian missionary values and aesthetics, Yoruba-language discourses centered on the moral obligations of the individual to the wider community.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-12DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01001007
Collet Hadrien
This piece is a presentation and a translation of al-Jazīrī’s al-Durar al-farāʾiḍ chapter on the royal pilgrims from Takrūr. This chapter presents notably an entirely new account on the pilgrimage of Idrīs b. ʿAlī, greatest sultan of Borno. The Cairene Sufi historian al-Jazīrī was at the time heading the office administrating the pilgrimage to Mecca. He was then at the center of the information traffic. An introduction presenting the author, his work, and royal pilgrims from West Africa opens the article, followed by the translation and the Arabic text.
这件作品是对al- jazj ā r ' s al-Durar al- farha ā al- hah章节的介绍和翻译，该章节来自Takrūr。本章特别介绍了博尔诺州最伟大的苏丹伊德鲁尔·s·b·al·伊德的朝圣之旅。当时，开罗苏菲派历史学家al- jazj ā r ā是管理麦加朝圣的办公室的负责人。他当时处于信息交通的中心。文章开头介绍了作者、他的作品和来自西非的王室朝圣者，随后是翻译和阿拉伯语文本。
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