Muslim Ethiopia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Muslims in Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism

   1. Muslims in Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism

      • Patrick Desplat, Terje Østebø

      Pages 1-21

3. Capacities, Constraints, New Ways of Living

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Muslims Struggling for Recognition in Contemporary Ethiopia

      • Dereje Feyissa

      Pages 25-46

   3. Being Young, Being Muslim in Bale

      • Terje Østebø

      Pages 47-69

   4. Religious Change and the Remaking of Boundaries among Muslim Afar Pastoralists

      • Simone Rettberg

      Pages 71-87

4. Islam, Identity, and Reform

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. The Formation of Trans-Religious Pilgrimage Centers in Southeast Ethiopia: Sitti Mumina and the Faraqasa Connection

      • Minako Ishihara

      Pages 91-114

   3. The Gendering Discourse in the Debates of Religious Orthodoxy

      • Meron Zeleke

      Pages 115-137

   4. Wali Venerating Practices, Identity Politics, and Islamic Reformism among the Siltie

      • Zerihun A. Woldeselassie

      Pages 139-161

   5. Against Wahhabism? Islamic Reform, Ambivalence, and Sentiments of Loss in Harar

      • Patrick Desplat

      Pages 163-184

5. Ethiopian Muslims and the Horn of Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Islam, War, and Peace in the Horn of Africa

      • Haggai Erlich

      Pages 187-199

   3. Transborder Islamic Activism in the Horn of Africa, the Case of Tadamun—the Ethiopian Muslim Brotherhood?

      • Stig Jarle Hansen

      Pages 201-214

   4. Ahlu Sunna wa l-Jama’a in Somalia

      • Roland Marchal, Zakaria M. Sheikh

      Pages 215-239

   5. Postscript

      • Terje Østebø

      Pages 241-258

6. Back Matter

   Pages 259-267

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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.

• Africa
• Christianity
• identity
• Islam

“Patrick Despalt and Terje Østebø’s Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism can be regarded as book that indicates the necessity of including Islam and Muslims in Ethiopian studies, particularly in the contemporary period. … The book is particularly significant as it contain chapters that are written by young Ethiopian scholars. … These fine scholars have broken down this age-old boundary by objectively writing about Islam and Muslims while being from another faith.” (Samson A. Bezabeh, Contemporary Islam, Vol. 10, 2016)

"Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø's volume addresses a real gap in historical and contemporary research and writing on Ethiopia, namely, the multiple interfaces between different religious traditions in the country, most prominently Islam and Christianity. Due to its fresh approach to the field, this text can be regarded as a milestone in recent writing on Ethiopia." - Roman Loimeier, Professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Germany

"Few subjects have been more important, and more neglected, in modern Ethiopia than the rapidly changing and growing role of Islam. This scrupulously researched book marks a critical breakthrough in scholarly analysis of the subject, and makes essential reading for understanding developments both in Ethiopia and in the Horn of Africa as a whole." - Christopher Clapham, Professor, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, UK

"Desplat and Østebø have produced a volume that is exceptionally timely and important. At a time when old understandings of Islam in Ethiopia are under question, this volume provides an excellent set of in-depth essays that take the conduct and local understandings of religious practice seriously. This book will be required reading for scholars seeking to understand contemporary Ethiopia." - Terrence Lyons, Associate Professor, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, USA

Dereje Feyissa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Haggai Erlich, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Minako Ishihara, Faculty of Humanities of Nanzan University, Japan Roland Marchal, National Center for Scientific Research, France Meron Zeleke, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany Simone Rettberg, University of Bayreuth, Germany Zakaria M. Sheekh, Human Rights activist and as a consultant for the UN and Western governments on Somali issues Zerihun Abebe, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway

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