TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruzzi, Silvia
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Islam and gender in colonial northeast Africa: Sitti 'Alawiyya, the uncrowned queen
T3  - Islam in Africa volume 21
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Islam
KW  - Africa, Northeast
KW  - History
KW  - Women sufis
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Sufism
KW  - al-Mīrghanī, 'Alawiyya
AB  - In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides an account of Islamic movements and gender dynamics in the context of colonial rule in Northeast Africa. The thread that runs through the book is the life and times of Sittī ‘Alawiyya al-Mīrġanī (1892-1940), a representative of a well-established transnational Sufi order in the Red Sea region. Silvia Bruzzi gives us not only a social history of the colonial encounter in the Eritrean colony, but also a wider historical account of supra-regional dynamics across the Red Sea, the Ethiopian hinterland, and the Mediterranean region, using a wide range of fragmentary historical materials to make an important contribution towards filling the gap that currently exists in women's and gender history in Muslim societies.
SN  - 9789004348004
LA  - English
N1  - by Silvia Bruzzi
ID  - 896728854
ER  -