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Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and subjugated the African people, Islam fitted comfortably into the indigenous landscape. Instead, this penetrating account reveals Muslim settlers to be as guilty of enforcing slavery and conversion as those of their more maligned sister tradition. Only with an acknowledgement of the true roles of both faiths in African history, suggests Azumah, can the people of both traditions move themselves and their continent towards a new future of tolerance and self-awareness.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa
• Subtitle: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue
• Author: John Allembillah Azumah
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781851682737
• ISBN: 1851682732
• ID: 05109263
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. August 2001

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