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Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 (African Studies)
Horn and Crescent Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast 8001900 - African Studies
Author: Randall L. Pouwels
In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole. Coastal Africans, he argues, simply adopted Islam as the spiritual vehicle best suited to their expanding intellectual needs and to meeting the opportunit...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521523097
ISBN-10: 0521523095
Publication Date: 6/30/2002
Pages: 287
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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