Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism

Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.

Author: P. Desplat, Terje Østebø
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/23/2013
Pages: 267
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781349459315
ISBN10: 1349459313
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | East
- Religion | Comparative Religion
- Religion | Islam | History

About the Author
Dereje Feyissa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Haggai Erlich, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Minako Ishihara, Faculty of Humanities of Nanzan University, Japan Roland Marchal, National Center for Scientific Research, France Meron Zeleke, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany Simone Rettberg, University of Bayreuth, Germany Zakaria M. Sheekh, Human Rights activist and as a consultant for the UN and Western governments on Somali issues Zerihun Abebe, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway