Overview: Provides an in-depth analysis of German colonial Islam politics.Offers a new approach to a post-colonial historiography of Islam in Africa.Enables new insights into religion, ethnicity, language, law,.In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends,
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