Sufis and Scholars of the Sea

Sufis and Scholars of the Sea

Author: Anne Bang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Edition: 1
Published date: 2004
ISBN: 9780415317634

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Anne Bang focuses on the ways in which a particular Islamic brotherhood, or 'tariqa', the tariqa Alawiyya, spread, maintained and propagated their particular brand of the Islamic faith. Originating in the South-Yemeni region of Hadramawt, the Alawi tariqa mainly spread along the coast of the Indian Ocean. The Alawis are here portrayed as one of many cultural mediators in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious Indian Ocean world in the era of European colonialism.

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