Philosophising in Mombasa : : Knowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast /

Philosophising in Mombasa : : Knowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast / / Kai Kresse.

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Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellect...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Kresse, Kai,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:International African Library : IAL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SOURCES
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • Maps
  • PROLOGUE APPROACHING PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE IN A SWAHILI CONTEXT
  • PART I COORDINATES – THEORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, HISTORY
  • 1 TOWARDS AN ‘ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY’: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE AND INTELLECTUAL PRACTICE IN AFRICA
  • 2 THE SWAHILI CONTEXT MOMBASA, THE OLD TOWN AND KIBOKONI
  • 3 A NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THINKERS KNOWLEDGE, DISCOURSE AND EAST AFRICAN ISLAM
  • PART II CONTEXTUAL PORTRAYALS OF LOCAL INTELLECTUALS
  • 4 AHMED SHEIKH NABHANY SWAHILI POETRY AND THE CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
  • 5 AHMAD NASSIR’S POETICAL MORAL THEORY UTU – HOW HUMAN BEINGS OUGHT TO BEHAVE
  • 6 THE RAMADHAN LECTURES OF SHEIKH ABDILAHI NASSIR: THE SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF A POLITICALLY MINDED ISLAMIC SCHOLAR
  • PART III RECONSIDERING ETHNOGRAPHY, RECONSIDERING THEORY
  • 7 COUNTERPOINTS AND CONTINUITIES: THE YOUNGER GENERATION INTERGENERATIONAL IDIOMS – EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES
  • EPILOGUE APPROACH AND FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
  • Appendices
  • APPENDIX 1 AHMED SHEIKH NABHANY
  • APPENDIX 2 SHEIKH ABDILAHI NASSIR
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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