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Title: | The Medieval Foundations of East African Islam. Part One |
Author: | Pouwels, Randall L. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 201-226 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | East Africa |
Subjects: | Islamic history History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217437 |
Abstract: | In the interpretations of early coastal history the Africans are viewed essentially as a subdued race whose cultures are passive and whose religions are inferior to that of the Arabs. The analysis offered here is based on a series of new assumptions and principles: 1) the Middle East contribution to coastal Islam was not the transfer of people but the introduction of a religious view that there is only one God, and 2) coastal Muslims are predominantly of African ancestry, both physically and culturally. Notes. |