Towards Jihad?: Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique 1st Edition Eric Morier-Genoud

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197769349
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197769348
• Author(s): Eric Morier-Genoud

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. Along the way, he explores a wide variety of phenomena, including the rise of Wahhabism, religious competition, state mediation, secularism, the alleged growth and radicalisation of Islam, and the origins of the ongoing insurgency. What emerges is a rich history, attentive to different branches and elements of the Muslim community, looking far beyond the narrow perspective of jihad.

Table contents:

Introduction

Chapter One. The ‘rise’ of Islam after independence, 1974-94

Chapter Two. The 1996 ‘Muslim holidays’ affair

Chapter Three. A prospect of secularization? Muslims and political power, 1994-2004

Chapter Four. Growth and radicalization? Islam and politics after 2004

Chapter Five. 2017: The birth of a jihadi insurgency

Conclusion

Appendixes
I. Foundation of the Islamic Council of Mozambique (CISLAMO), 1981
II. Letter from the Muslim World League to President Samora Machel, 1983
III. Law project for Muslim national holidays, 1996
IV. Final communiqu? of the First National Islamic Conference, 2003
V. Discourse of the jihadi insurgents, 2018, 2020, and 2022

Bibliography

Notes

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