Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview

Bonate, Liazzat J. K.

doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00701.x

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“…This man had come back from Saudi Arabia in 1964 having taken a sharia course at the University of Medina and had become a vocal advocate of the Wahhabi trend. 50 CISLAMO is not a Sufi based organization and "tensions between the Sufi leaders of the majority of Muslims in the north and the more radical reformists based in the south have caused the former to split off from CISLAMO and form their own organization, the Congresso Islâmico." 51 The latter conglomerated several pre-colonial Muslim associations, brotherhoods and groups of Indian Sunni "all sharing an anti-Wahhabi stance."…”

Section: Reformist Trends and National Policy Towards Islam 35mentioning

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“…43 In 1972, after a thorough inquiry about the Muslim world in Mozambique was carried out in the late 1960s, the colonial government decided to attempt alliances with the Sufi leaders. 44 The independent government established in 1975 in Mozambique tried to discredit all religious practices they regarded as obscurantist and ideologically backward habits, 47 including beliefs in the ancestors. The socialist revolutionary government, which advocated Marxist-Leninist ideals, refused any alliance with organized religions; abhorring the Portuguese policy in which the colonial state had been supported and legitimized by the Roman Catholic Church, it also built new forms of disrepute on Islam.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The latter had himself disseminated the practice of the qadiriyya in East Africa. 9 According to oral sources gathered in 1989, on the Island of Ibo:…”

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Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)

Declich

2013

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)

Declich

2013

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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“…In signing up, the couple joined what has grown into a global phenomenon over the past few decades: the manifestation of Salafi-inspired Islamic reformism in Muslim contexts across the world (Kepel 1994;Roy 2002). The emergence of this brand of reformism has been relatively recent in northern Mozambique, but it has expanded rapidly, at the expense of historically prevalent Sufi-oriented forms of Islam (Bonate 2007;2010;Declich 2013). 5 The attraction it offered to Rajah and Jafar was its radical break with the Makhuwa notions of relatedness described earlier.…”

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Dangerous neighbours: sorcery, conspicuous exchange and proximity among urban migrants in northern Mozambique

Laheij

2018

Africa

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Urban migrants in Nampula City, northern Mozambique, perceive themselves to be living in an environment where they are particularly vulnerable to sorcery attacks. Key to this sense of vulnerability are Makhuwa notions of matrilineal descent and relatedness, which work to locate sorcery fears in the interstices of two kinds of proximity, namely social and physical. Accordingly, people fear the translocal reach of the ill will of kin residing in the countryside, with whose well-being they remain connected regardless of the physical distance. Simultaneously, there are threats posed by urban neighbours who, due to their proximity in physical terms but separation in social terms, are considered dangerous. This article analyses practices of conspicuous exchange as one of the strategies urban migrants employ in coping with these anxieties. Specifically, it draws on the life histories of two women in one neighbourhood of Nampula City to explore the challenges they experience in meeting demands for material assistance from rural kin and urban neighbours. The analysis shows that their accounts of sorcery are structured by the difficulty of balancing such demands in a setting of poverty and socio-economic inequality. This finding has implications for anthropological theories of sorcery, misfortune and urban migration.

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“…This was due not only to the impact of the anti-Muslim policies of Portugal, but also due to the strong influence of the wide Muslim network in East Africa, supporting the independences (Bonate 2007b 1993:303-311;Bonate 2007b:56). Not only did the Portuguese administration give public support to Sufi rather than to the Wahhabi group that began emerging in the 1960s; they also reconsidered several aspects of their colonial policy.…”

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7 - Mozambique: The Rise of a Micro Dual State

Meneses¹,

Santos²

2009

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The decade from 1990 to 2000 was a period of sustained political activity in Africa, leading towards democratisation. Under this scope, Mozambique is widely seen as one paradigmatic success story. Yet, the country's multiparty democratic system remains challenged by a strong authoritarianism that hampers open deliberation in political public discourse. This paper discusses some reasons for this democratic hold-up in Mozambique's political and social transition within the broad and ongoing democratisation process in Sub-Saharan Africa. With an emphasis on the analysis of the political situation in the northern town of Angoche, this article argues that the persistence of central government authoritarianism is a reminder of a political liberalisation without democratising the political systems. Indeed, local municipal officials are now elected and receive revenue transfers, but remain limited by other measures.2 The central state successfully resists attempts to devolve broader decision-making authority to municipalities. Far from the ideal Weberian type of state bureaucracy, public administration is highly politicised in the sense that the building up of the administrative capacities of the state are seen as a way of consolidating the political leverage of the ruling party -Frelimo. The paper defends, however, that indeed, a detailed analysis of the public political actions at local level, between distinct political structures, shows that successive authoritarian regimes have not totally erased the freedom of speech and thought, even if they have relegated opposition to ever more marginal spaces. RésuméLa décennie 1990/2000 a été caractérisée en Afrique par une activité politique soutenue orientée vers la démocratisation. Dans ce cadre, le Mozambique est plutôt vu comme une réussite paradigmatique. Or, ce système démocratique de multipartisme continue à afficher des velléités d'un fort autoritarisme peu propice au relèvement du niveau de la réflexion dans le discours politique public. Cette étude s'interesse aux raisons de ce blocage démocratique du processus de transition politique et social au Mozambique dans le cadre plus général du processus de démocratisation en cours en Afrique au sud du Sahara. En s'appuyant en particulier sur l'analyse de la situation politique de la ville d'Angoche, située au nord du pays, l'étude estime que le fait que le gouvernement central persiste dans l'autoritarisme est assez révélateur d'une libéralisation politique non suivie de la démocratisation des systèmes politiques. En effet, si les fonctionnaires municipaux locaux sont maintenant élus et reçoivent des fonds de transfert, ils restent, en revanche, limités par d'autres mesures.2 Le gouvernement central résiste avec succès à toute tentative d'élargir le mandat des municipalités en matière de prise de décision. Loin du modèle idéal wébérien de bureaucratie d'Etat, l'administration publique est fortement politicisée, en ce sens que le renforcement des capacités administratives de l'Etat est perçue comme un moyen de ren...

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Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview

Abstract: This article is a historical overview of two issues: first,

Cited by 25 publications

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Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)

Transmission of Muslim practices and women's agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)

Dangerous neighbours: sorcery, conspicuous exchange and proximity among urban migrants in northern Mozambique

7 - Mozambique: The Rise of a Micro Dual State

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