Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 by Randall L. Pouwels

Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900

African Studies

Randall L. Pouwels

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as t...

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