Muslim Ethiopia
Muslim Ethiopia

Author: Terje Østebø

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1137322098

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Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.

Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia
Islam in Nineteenth-Century Wallo, Ethiopia

Author: Hussein Ahmed

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 9004492283

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While presenting an historical account of the internal dynamics of Islam in Wallo, Ethiopia, with particular emphasis on the modes of its introduction and dissemination, and on its relationship with the Ethiopian state and regional power structure, this book describes the background to, and manifestations of, the revival and consolidation of Islam in the region in the nineteenth century by assessing the role of Muslim scholars, traders and chiefs in that process. It also traces the origin of the tradition of Islamic renewal and reform, and analyzes the response of Wallo Muslim religious intellectuals to the attempt of the Ethiopian Christian monarchs of the period to bring about the political unification of the kingdom by imposing a policy of religious coercion on the Muslims of Wallo. Based largely on hitherto-untapped oral and written indigenous sources, and supplemented by external archival and documentary evidence, the study is aimed at redressing the historiographical and interpretive imbalance embedded in the scholarly, institutional and popular perceptions on Islam in Ethiopia.

Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia

Author: Terje Østebø

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1108839681

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Discussing an armed insurgency in Ethiopia (1963-1970), this study offers a new perspective for understanding relations between religion and ethnicity.

Islam in Ethiopia
Islam in Ethiopia

Author: J. S. Trimingham

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415446730

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Originally published in 1952.This volume examines the impact of Islam upon the nomadic and settled North-East Africa, the reactions of the population to that impact and the existing state of Islam professed by those who have been won over to it. It pays particular attention to Ethiopia and the effect of Islam upon it and the centuries of conflict between Christianity and Islam.

Religion in Public Spaces
Religion in Public Spaces

Author: Dr Sabrina Pastorelli

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012-10-28

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 1409483339

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This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections. In the first the public/private distinction is studied mainly from a theoretical point of view, through the contributions of lawyers, philosophers and sociologists. In the following sections their proposals are tested through the analysis of two case studies, religious dress codes and places of worship. These sections include discussions on some of the most controversial recent cases from around Europe with contributions from some of the leading experts in the area of law and religion. Covering a range of very different European countries including Turkey, the UK, Italy and Bulgaria, the book uses comparative case studies to illustrate how practice varies significantly even within Europe. It reveals how familiarization with religious and philosophical diversity in Europe should lead to the modification of legal frameworks historically designed to accommodate majority religions. This in turn should give rise to recognition of new groups and communities and eventually, a more adequate response to the plurality of religions and beliefs in European society.

Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia
Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia

Author: Ulrich Braukämper

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9783825856717

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Studies on Islam in Ethiopia have long been neglected although Islam is the religious confession of almost half of the Ethiopian population. The essays focus on the following topics: Islamic Principalities in Southeast Ethiopia between the 13th and 16th Century * Notes on the Islamization and the Muslim Shrines of the Harar Plateau * The Sanctuary of Shaikh Husayn and the Oromo-Somali Connections in Bale * The Islamization of the Arsi-Oromo; Medieval Muslim Survivals as a Stimulating Factor in the Re-Islamization of Southeastern Ethiopia. The essays are based on the study of written records and on field research in southern parts of the country carried out during the first half of the 1970s.