Title
Towards jihad? : Muslims and politics in postcolonial Mozambique / Eric Morier-Genoud.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) : maps (black and white).
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Notes
Originally published: London: Hurst & Company, 2023.
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Summary
Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim politics always point towards jihad? Eric Morier-Genoud examines the period immediately after independence, when the state engaged in anticlericalism; he then moves across the decades to the 2000s, when the ruling party and the opposition alike courted Muslims for electoral purposes, before reaching the 2010s, when tensions between 'mosque and state' returned.
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Added to Catalog
September 04, 2024
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.