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Title: | Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique |
Author: | Bonate, Liazzat J.K. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 139-166 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mozambique |
Subjects: | Islamic history matriarchy Islamic law Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft colonialism History and Exploration Women's Issues Cultural Roles nationalism Historical/Biographical |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27594374.pdf |
Abstract: | Using gender as the major line of difference, this paper examines the diversity within Islam in northern Mozambique, in which, despite strong historical ties to the Swahili world and waves of Islamic expansion, as well as attempts to establish and police an Islamic 'orthodoxy', matriliny continues to be one of the main cultural features. Concentrating on two coastal regions, Mozambique Island and Angoche, and on three urban zones of the modern provincial capital, Nampula City, the paper addresses the reasons for the endurance of matriliny, through historical processes that brought about different currents of Islam, and discusses the ways in which the colonial and postcolonial State, while attempting to control the often conflicting Islamic and African 'traditional' authorities, have contributed to the perpetuation of this conflict as well as to the endurance of matriliny. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |