Yahya Sseremba

America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa. Taking American intervention in Islamic education in Uganda as the entry point, the book demonstrates how state control over Islamic truth production and everyday Muslim life has increased.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 241mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781032412085
• ISBN-10: 1032412089
• Artikelnr.: 67257844

Autorenporträt

Yahya Sseremba is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Islam and the limits of centralization in late
precolonial Buganda 3. Exclusion by inclusion: The Ugandan state and the
Muslim subject 4. The madrasa as a site of the war on terror 5. The
diminishing Muslim domain: America's prescriptions for Islamic education
reform 6. Question formulators and data collectors: the production of
knowledge about the madrasa 7. Salafism: the boogeyman of the war on terror
8. Africa as conceptual model: Ugandan thought and contemporary Islamic
reform 9. Conclusion: Islam and decolonization