Bridging African and Arab histories, this book examines the
relationship between Islam, nationalism and the evolution of
identity politics from late 19th Century to World War II.? It
provides a cross-national, cross-regional analysis of religious
reform, nationalism, anti-colonialism from Zanzibar to Oman, North
Africa and the Middle East.
This book widens the scope of modern Arab history by integrating
Omani rule in Zanzibar in the historiography of Arab nationalism
and Islamic reform.? It examines the intellectual and political
ties and networks between Zanzibar, Oman, Algeria, Egypt, Istanbul
and the Levant and the ways those links shaped the politics of
identity of the Omani elite in Zanzibar.? Out of these connections
emerges an Omani intelligentsia strongly tied to the Arab cultural
nahda and to movements of Islamic reform, pan-Islamism and
pan-Arabism.? The book examines Zanzibari nationalism, as
formulated by the Omani intelligentsia, through the prism of these
pan-Islamic connections and in the light of Omani responses to
British policies in Zanzibar. The author sheds light on Ibadism -
an overlooked sect of Islam - and its modern intellectual history
and the role of the Omani elite in bridging Ibadism with
pan-Islamism and pan-Arabism.
Although much has been written about nationalism in the Arab
world, this is the first book to discuss nationalism in Zanzibar in
the wider context of religious reform and nationalism in the Arab
world, and the first to offer a new framework of analysis to the
study of pan-Islamic and pan-Arab movements and nationalism.
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