The Edge of Islam Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast |
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| Author:
| McIntosh, Janet |
| Series title: | E-Duke Books Scholarly Collection |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-9096-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $28.95 |
Book Description:
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Explores ethnoreligious tensions in coastal Kenya between the impoverished Giriama people and their neighbors, the privileged Swahili and Arab communities, and documents the Giriama's idiosyncratic uses of Islam and their conflicted relationship with it.
Explores ethnoreligious tensions in coastal Kenya between the impoverished Giriama people and their neighbors, the privileged Swahili and Arab communities, and documents the Giriama's idiosyncratic uses of Islam and their conflicted relationship with it.