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

Declich, Francesca

doi:10.1080/17531055.2013.842369

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

Laheij

2018

Africa

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Zanzibaris or Amakhuwa? Sufi Networks in South Africa, Mozambique, and the Indian Ocean

Kaarsholm

2014

J. Afr. Hist.

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This article investigates the role of Sufi networks in keeping Durban's ‘Zanzibari’ community of African Muslims together and developing their response to social change and political developments from the 1950s to the post-apartheid period. It focuses on the importance of religion in giving meaning to notions of community, and discusses the importance of the Makua language in maintaining links with northern Mozambique and framing understandings of Islam. The transmission of ritual practices of the Rifaiyya, Qadiriyya, and Shadhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods is highlighted, as is the significance of Maputo as a node for such linkages. The article discusses change over time in notions of cosmopolitanism, diaspora, and belonging, and examines new types of interactions after 1994 between people identifying themselves as Amakhuwa in Durban and Mozambique.

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Islam, secularist government, and state–civil society interaction in Mozambique and South Africa since 1994

Kaarsholm

2015

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This article explores state-civil society interactions in Mozambique and South Africa with a focus on Islamic groupings, and places the two countries within an Indian Ocean coastal continuum of links to East Africa, India, and the Arab world. Contrasting the histories of dominant-party rule since the transitions in 1994 to multiparty-ism in Mozambique and to democracy in South Africa, the article discusses the development of Islamic organisations including both transnational Sufi orders and modernist reform movements as important components in local civil societies. The article contrasts the spaces for accommodation of Islamic groups that have been created in South Africa with the more radical secularism that has been in place in post-Independence Mozambique. Finally, the article discusses the effects of this contrast on possibilities for stability and democratic consolidation in the context of the 2014 elections in South Africa and Mozambique.

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

Cited by 4 publications

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

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

Zanzibaris or Amakhuwa? Sufi Networks in South Africa, Mozambique, and the Indian Ocean

Islam, secularist government, and state–civil society interaction in Mozambique and South Africa since 1994

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