GLAUBENSKAMPF ODER MACHTKAMPF? DER AUFSTAND DER MALÉ VON BAHIA NACH EINER ISLAMISCHEN QUELLE
The large Muslim-led revolt of slaves and emancipated blacks which took place and was suppressed in Brazil in 1835 was seen by several scholars from about 1900 until the present as an Islamic jihād movement aiming at the establishment of an Islamic state. This interpretation has recently been called...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Univ.
1995
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Sudanic Africa
Year: 1995, Volume: 6, Pages: 115-124 |
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| Summary: | The large Muslim-led revolt of slaves and emancipated blacks which took place and was suppressed in Brazil in 1835 was seen by several scholars from about 1900 until the present as an Islamic jihād movement aiming at the establishment of an Islamic state. This interpretation has recently been called into question by J.J .Reis and P.F. de Moraes Farias who stress the racial and political rather than religious character of the revolt, which according to them was directed primarily against the ruling class of white slave-owners and the political institutions controlled by them. The racial and political character of this revolt is fully confirmed by another source, a travelogue written by an Ottoman scholar, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baghdādī al-Dimashqī who came to Rio de Janeiro in 1865 and made the acquaintance of some clandestine Muslims living there. Staying on at their request and instructing them in the rituals and norms of Islam, he received some information about the revolt of the blacks against the Christian rulers. His short account clearly shows that, although the Muslims were the leading group in the revolt, the events, being described as a 'war' (ḥarb), not a jihād, were designed to bring the blacks in general to power. With Islam playing an important role as an integrating factor among the revolutionaries, the revolt itself was nevertheless first and foremost a rebellion against oppression by the white Christian rulers and slaveowners. |
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| ISSN: | 0806-7120 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sudanic Africa
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