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Southern Africa’s Muslim Minorities
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana
IRCICA AwqafSA March 2016
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
Nature of Scholarship Inter-disciplinary
Identity & Politics of Scholarship in the Study of Religion (Cabezon & Davaney [ed.]2004)
African Studies (Azevedo [ed] 1998)
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
African Studies: Broad Discipline = includes Islamic Studies
Islamic Studies = straddles all disciplines
Africa (includes North African Muslims = Arabs, Berbers, & Other)
Sub-Saharan Africa (excludes North African Muslims = Arabs, Berbers, & Other)
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
Broad & Expansive field of research Islamic Studies: opportunity to influence &
shape outcomes in and outside continent Like African Studies affected by formation
& development of nation-states 1950 sand emerged as an independent discipline towards latter of 20th century
Denial of Africa’s past – denial of the formation of Muslim identities
History: helped to restore & assisted by other social sciences: ethnographers, sociologists, orientalists & very late by Islamologists (?)
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
Patrick Ofori Islam in Africa: South of the Sahara (Nendeln: KTO Press 1977)
Samir Zoghby Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Partially Annotated Guide (Washington: Library of Congress 1978)
Paul Schrijver Bibliography on Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa (Leiden: ASC 2006)
Abdulkader Tayob’s Islam in Africa: Research Guide (Oxford: OUP 2010)
UPDATING AND AMENDING AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
05/01/23Muhammed Haron University of Botswana IRCICA
AwqafSA March 2016
Updating Ruth Hampson’s Post-Graduate Studies Bibliographical Research: 1960s
Complementing Gerrie Lubbe and Ebrahim Mahida’s respective bibliographical compilations:1980s
Preparing an annotated bibliography with a detailed index: Haron 1990s
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Annotations: informative and descriptive
Index: General subject – an index with sub-sections such as place names, organizations, etc
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Research in the 1980's and 1990's
The annotated bibliography – constant updates
Includes texts on Southern African region (Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, etc)
Towards an annotated bibliography of Muslims in (sub-Saharan) Africa
