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America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda (Hardcover)
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America and the Production of Islamic Truth in Uganda (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book investigates the ways in which the war on terror has
transformed the postcolonial state in Africa. Taking American
intervention in Islamic education in Uganda as the entry point, the
book demonstrates how state control over Islamic truth production
and everyday Muslim life has increased. During the colonial period,
the Muslims in Uganda were governed in two ways: partly as lesser
citizens within the Christian-dominated civil sphere and partly as
members of a distinct Muslim domain. In this domain, a local system
of Islamic education developed with a degree of autonomy that
reflected the limits of the colonial state in shaping the Muslim
subject. In the subsequent postcolonial period, systems of
patronage and clientalistic networks dominated, and Muslim leaders
were co-opted by the state, but without much real interference in
the day-to-day lives of ordinary Muslims. However, as part of the
war on terror, the US State Department seeks to bring the
mechanisms of Islamic truth production, especially the madrasa,
under direct state control and civil society scrutiny. This book
argues that the "Muslim domain as a separate entity is coming to an
end as it is being absorbed into the civil sphere, unifying the
state’s domination of society." The book also analyzes local
Ugandan Muslim initiatives to modernise and contextualize their own
education and religion and how these initiatives are shaped by and
transcend the dominant power. A thorough exploration of US foreign
policy and Islamic education, this book will be of interest to
students and scholars in the fields of Political Studies, African
Studies and Religious Studies.
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