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Explores the relationship between Muslim communities and the State in East Africa in political, institutional and legal contexts

  • Focuses on the relationship between Muslims and the State in Kenya and Tanzania
  • Asks which factors, both within and outside the Muslim community, shape and affect this relationship in contemporary times
  • Presents 13 case studies exploring governance issues within and across the categories of politics, institutions and law in Kenya and Tanzania
  • Identifies cross-cutting issues of governance and Muslim communities which are relevant beyond East Africa

Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims in relation to security issues, or to discuss the reforms attempted within communities and their implications for Muslim theology, rituals and general welfare. Both these approaches are covered in this book, and a third is added – the study of Muslims as citizens or residents of their respective countries, looking at their activities and attitudes in relation to the various challenges they face together with their fellow compatriots and citizens.

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Map of eastern Africa

Introduction
Farouk Topan, with Kai Kresse, Erin E. Stiles and Hassan Mwakimako

PART I: POLITICS

1. An Islamic Interpretive Strategy for Exploring Grassroots Governance in Northern Kenya
Mark LeVine

2. The Kenyan State and Coastal Muslims: The Politics of Alienation and Engagement
Jeremy Prestholdt

3. Counter-Narrativity as Peace, Love and Unity: Citizenship and Belonging in a Kenyan Muslim Counter-Radicalisation Programme
Halkano Abdi Wario

4. Beyond Vicious Circles in the Kenyan Post-colony? On the Value of Discursive Space in Muslim Politics
Kai Kresse

5. Islam, Politics and the Limits of Authority in Mainland Tanzania, 1955–1968
James R. Brennan

6. Politics, Lived Islam and Muslim Public Discourse in Zanzibar: Reflections on Cultural Identity, Belonging and Governance, 1984–2016
Kjersti Larsen

7. The Inter-religious Dynamics of Muslim Politics: The Zanzibar Case
Hans Olsson

PART II: INSTITUTIONS

8. The Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM): Jostling for Representativeness among Muslims in Kenya
Hassan Mwakimako

9. Muslim Networks, Public Services and Development Intervention in Post-Socialist Tanzania: Between Liberalisation and Alienation
Felicitas Becker

10. Shehes and the State: The Role of Muslim Religious Leaders in Public Health Governance in Rural Tanzania
Mohamed Yunus Rafiq

11. Facing Change at the Margins of the Kenyan Nation: The Promise of the Lamu Port
Charlotte Knote

PART III: LAW

12. Beyond an Impasse: Rule of Law and the Kenyan Kadhis’ Courts
Susan F. Hirsch

13. The Law of Evidence Applicable in the Kadhis’ Courts of Kenya: A Study of Two Decisions by Kadhi Abduljabar, Kadhis’ Court Nairobi at Upper Hill
Tito Kunyuk

14. Courts within Courts: Kadhis and their Courts in the Kenyan Judicial System
Abdulkadir Hashim

15. The Case of the Stubborn Heir: State and Non-State Actors in Zanzibar’s Kadhis’ Courts
Erin E. Stiles

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Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Edinburgh

Series

Exploring Muslim Contexts

Volume

11

ISBN

9781474483001

Keywords

African studies, East Africa, East African institutions, East African law, East African politics, governance, Islam, Islam in Africa, Kadhi, Kenya, Muslims, Swahili, Tanzania

Governance and Islam in East Africa: Muslims and the State in Kenya and Tanzania

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