Articles · Vol. 18 No 1 (2014): Revue africaine de sociologie · Pages 27 - 48

2 - Religious citizenship: The case of the globalised Khoja

  • Iqbal S. Akhtar
    Iqbal S. Akhtar Department of Religious Studies/Department of Politics and International Relations Florida International University, Florida
    Iqbal Akhtar is a dual-appointment in the department of politics & international relations as well as religious studies at Florida International University. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh's New College School of Divinity on the history of...
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Résumé

Le Khoja africaine sont une caste musulmane Indic, qui a commencé la migration de Sindh et du Gujarat Afrique de l’Est à la fin du 18ème siècle. Au cours des 19e et 20e siècles, leur succès économique dans une région sous-développée sur le plan institutionnel couplé avec une forte impulsion religieuse leur a permis de construire des institutions municipales communales toute la région imité C’est Bothan et substitué à l’Etat absent. L’insécurité de l’Afrique postcoloniale de l’Est, tels que la révolution de 1964 à Zanzibar et 1972 ougandais asiatique exode, a forcé le Khoja à élargir leur appareil bureaucratique de la politique de la migration étrangère à l’Europe occidentale et l’Amérique du Nord et l’institutionnalisation nécessaire. Au 21e siècle, la Khoja coordonner Ces réseaux communautaires d’Amérique du Nord et en Europe occidentale à l’Asie et de l’Afrique vers un développement économique basé sur la religion dans les économies émergentes. Leur identité première est religieuse, définie à partir de l’intérieur et sont sortis, en utilisant les mécanismes de la mondialisation à d’autres objectifs communautaires l’échelle internationale dans le cadre de nationalisme religieux Insensible aux nationalisme d’Etat.

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Le Khoja citoyenneté Religieuse L'Islam Madagascar La diaspora identité communauté Imaginé

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Biographie de l'auteur/ice

  • Iqbal S. Akhtar, Department of Religious Studies/Department of Politics and International Relations Florida International University, Florida

    Iqbal Akhtar is a dual-appointment in the department of politics & international relations as well as religious studies at Florida International University. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Edinburgh's New College School of Divinity on the history of The Khōjā of Tanzania, an Indic Muslim merchant caste in East Africa. Some of his publications can be found on Academia. Currently, his research is focused on reconstructing the 18th century religious cosmology of the Sindhi Khōjā. Through the ongoing interdisciplinary programme being pursued at FIU towards a Muslim Studies programme, Khōjā Studies is emerging as an important component for international interdisciplinary scholarly cooperation.

    At FIU, the courses Dr. Akhtar leads include: The International Relations of South Asia, Development of International Relations Thought, Gender and Jihad in the Quran, Islam and International Relations, Islamic Faith and Society, Islamic Political Thought, and Sufism: Islamic Mysticism.

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