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The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa (Hardcover)
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The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Islamic Studies
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This book examines the history of the European Scramble for Africa
from the perspective of the Omanis and other Arabs in East Africa.
It will be of interest not only to African specialists, but also
those working on the Middle East, where awareness is now emerging
that the history of those settled on the southern peripheries of
Arabia has been intimately entwined with Indian Ocean maritime
activities since pre-Islamic times. The nineteenth century,
however, saw these maritime borderlands being increasingly drawn
into a new world economy, one of whose effects was the development
of an ivory front in the interior of the continent that, by the
1850s, led the Omanis and Swahili to establish themselves on the
Upper Congo. A reconstruction of their history and their
interaction with Europeans is a major theme of this book. European
colonial rivalries in Africa is not a subject in vogue today, while
the Arabs are still largely viewed as invaders and slavers. The
fact that the British separated the Sultanates of Muscat and
Zanzibar is reflected in European research so that historians have
little grasp of the geographic, tribal and religious continuum that
persisted between overseas empire and the Omani homeland. Ibadism
is regarded as irrelevant to the mainstream of Islamic religious
protest whereas, during the lead up to establishing direct colonial
rule, its ideology played a significant role; even the final rally
against the Belgians in the Congo was conducted in the name of an
Imam al-Muslimin. Back home, the fall out from the British massacre
that crushed the last Arab attempt to reassert independence in
Zanzibar was an important contributory cause towards the
re-founding of an Imamate that survived until the mid-1950s.
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