America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda

Autorentext

Yahya Sseremba is a research fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University.

Klappentext

This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has transformed the postcolonial state in Africa. Taking American intervention in Islamic education in Uganda as the entry point, the book demonstrates how state control over Islamic truth production and everyday Muslim life has increased.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Islam and the limits of centralization in late precolonial Buganda 3. Exclusion by inclusion: The Ugandan state and the Muslim subject 4. The madrasa as a site of the war on terror 5. The diminishing Muslim domain: America's prescriptions for Islamic education reform 6. Question formulators and data collectors: the production of knowledge about the madrasa 7. Salafism: the boogeyman of the war on terror 8. Africa as conceptual model: Ugandan thought and contemporary Islamic reform 9. Conclusion: Islam and decolonization