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Haenni, Patrick; Holtrop, Tjitske

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“…He was also known as the Muslim television preacher who challenged Pope John Paul 11 to a public debate on Christianity. He thus achieved visibility and acclaim before later television preachers such as the widely popular Egyptian Amr Khalid, whose 'cool' style and brand of faith-based development has turned him into something of a superstar among Egyptian youth (Haenni and Holtrop 2002). …”

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Ahmed Deedat, Internationalisation, and Transformations of Islamic Polemic

Sadouni

2013

J Religion Afr

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The South African preacher, Ahmed Deedat, has developed a specific discourse on the nature of relations between Muslims and Other religions through polemic and public debates. This paper describes the mechanisms of the circulation of his thought and activities and its political character. Deedat is a relevant actor in 'Muslim politics' who has not been thoroughly studied in the field of Muslim proselydsm. His political activities were inscribed first in the long history of munazara (debate, dispute) in India and then in the desire to internationalise his religious ideas in public platforms and media. His ideology has also been reappropriated by other television preachers, especially in Mumbai, through the example of Zakir Naik. The historical and the political approaches of this paper provide a better understanding of the internationalisation and transformations of Islamic polemics.

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Ahmed Deedat, Internationalisation, and Transformations of Islamic Polemic

Sadouni

2013

J Religion Afr

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Religiöse Identität und Globalisierung

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„Globalisierung“

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Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Janson

2018

The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History

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is frequently, but unjustly, seen as the periphery of the Muslim world, in terms of both geography and religious influence. By contrast, North Africa is considered to be directly linked to the alleged center of the Muslim world, that is, the Arab Middle East. In fact, Islam has had a presence in sub-Saharan Africa since the earliest days of its history. This chapter tries to redress the periphery bias in the analysis of African Muslim societies -a bias that, as Loimeier (2013: ix-x) points out, is long overdue. After all, Africa is home to one of the largest agglomerations of Muslims in the world today. 1 Stretching south across the Sahara, the vast savannah zone -known as the Sahel -is Muslim until it reaches the forest belt of West and Central Africa. Moving south, the Horn of Africa represents a second major zone of Muslim influence. Via contact with seafaring traders in the Indian Ocean, Islam came to dominate in what is now known as the Swahili coast, stretching as far south as Mozambique and the island of Madagascar. From these areas, the religion spread gradually over the centuries, moving south and west into more tropical zones, and the expansion continues today (Levtzion and Pouwels 2000; Loimeier 2013). At present, Muslims constitute a majority in North Africa and in most of the countries in the Sahel. In Sudan, Chad and Tanzania Muslims are the largest group. The population is almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians in Africa's most populous country, Nigeria. Even where Muslims are a minority, they constitute large majorities in certain regions, as for example on the Cape in South Africa, 2 northern Benin, northern Cameroon, northern Ghana, and in highland Ethiopia and coastal Kenya (Otayek and Soares 2007: This is the author's un-edited original manuscript of a chapter that will appear in Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History edited by Martin Shanguhyia and Toyin Falola, due for publication 2017.

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Mondaines spiritualités...

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Ahmed Deedat, Internationalisation, and Transformations of Islamic Polemic

Ahmed Deedat, Internationalisation, and Transformations of Islamic Polemic

Religiöse Identität und Globalisierung

Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

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