Zanzibari Muslim Moderns

Auteur

Anne K. Bang is Professor of African Islamic History at the University of Bergen. She has published widely on Islamic intellectual exchanges in the Indian Ocean, and particularly on East Africa. She has also led several projects to bring the scriptural sources of this history to wider attention.

Texte du rabat

Reveals how a generation of Muslim scholars, intellectuals and civil servants adapted and adopted ideas of modernity in colonial interwar Zanzibar.