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

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.Contents Acknowledgement Foreword; Benjamin Soares Introduction: Muslims in Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism; Patrick Desplat & Terje ?steb? PART I: CAPACITIES, CONSTRAINTS, NEW WAYS OF LIVING 1. Muslim Struggle for Recognition in Contemporary Ethiopia; Dereje Feyissa 2. Being Young, Being Muslim in Bale; Terje ?steb? 3. Religious Change and the Remaking of Boundaries among Muslim Afar Pastoralists; Simone Rettberg PART II: ISLAM, IDENTITY, AND REFORM 4. The Formation of Trans-religious Pilgrimage Centers in Southeast Ethiopia: Sitti Momina and the Faraqasa Connection; Minako Ishihara 5. The Gendering Dimension in Sufi Contestation of Religious Orthodoxy: Representations of Women in a Sufi Shrine at Tiru Sina; Meron Zeleke 6. Negotiating Wali Venerating Practices in Ethiopia: Islamic Reformist Movements and Identity Politics in Siltie Zone; Zerihun A. Woldeselassie 7. Against Wahabism? Islamic Reform, Ambivalence and Sentiments of Loss in Harar; Patrick Desplat PART III: ETHIOPIAN MUSLIMS AND THE HORN OF AFRICA 8. Islam, War and Peace in the Horn of Africa; Haggai Erlich 9. Transborder Islamic Activism in the Horn of Africa: The Case of Tadamun  an Ethiopian Muslim Brotherhood?; Stig Jarle Hansen 10. Ahlu Sunna wa l-Jama'a in Somalia; Roland Marchal and Zakaria M. Sheekh Postscript; Terje ?steb? List of Contributors

Patrick Despalt and Terje ?steb?s Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism can be regarded as book that indicates the necessity of including Islam and Muslims in Ethiopian studies, particularly in the contemporary period. & The book is particularly significantlãÔ