Muslim Ethiopia

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 Østebø 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 Østebø 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 Østebø List of Contributors