Influence of Islam Upon Africa
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/1979
الناشر: مكتبة لبنان ناشرون
نبذة نيل وفرات:The penetration of Islam into the continet of Africa is a vast and continuing cultural and religious process; it is one which has a profound effect on the course of world history. Dr Trimingham's study is more than a merefactual account of this process; it interprets the nature and ...extent of the influence of this religious culture upon the life and thought of the African world.
The book describes the spread of Islam into the Negro and Hamitic zones south of the Sahara from the eleventh century onwords.It shows how geographical and ethnic factors in the region combined to prevent the absolute acceptance of a purely Islamic way of life and thought.
African Islam has thus acquired most of its distinctive characteristics: the separate subcultures, each representing a particular amalgam of African and Islamic elements.
Dr Trimingham explains how one region may be affected by developments in another, and why some trends and feathures are common to all African Muslims while others are regional. He traces in details the widely varying reactions of Islam which underlie the regional differences, and relates them to the different types of African mentality, culture and attitude to life.
The final chapter of this second edition considers those changes of the last decade or so that affect religion, and also draws attention to the ways in which the modern African is thinking.نبذة المؤلف:This book was planned as a religious study. Specifically it was intended to introduce the religious factors that are involved in any study of peoples of Africa who had been influenced by the intrusion of a religion that was alien to the natural religious genius of Africans, and to assess and analyse the way in which they had assimilated it. It was written in a Beirut whose present day state I would not have predicted at the time, even though I was acutely aware of the factors, historical, religious, and psychological, that have led to the present state of Lebanon. At leasrt, it was a setting that was appropriate for understanding the foundations of what are misleading called "religious conflicts", some of which are touched on a chapter that has been added to this new edition.
I have not found it necessary to make changes in the body of the text; the principles upon which I worked still hold, but in the new chapter attention has been given to specific changes that have taken place in the last decade or so which affect religion. But the main purpose of the chapter is to draw attention to the ways in which the modern African is thinking. Since the coming of independence there has been a drawing together in sympathy of black and white Africans, significant in itself, but marking a drawing together of the African and Arab worlds. إقرأ المزيد