Author: Lee V. CassanelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banaadir (Somalia)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The Benaadir Past
Author: Lee V. CassanelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banaadir (Somalia)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Exploring the Old Stone Town of Mogadishu
Author: Nuredin Hagi ScikeiPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527506851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Mogadishu is a medieval trading city in Somalia, which reached the peak of its prosperity during the 14th and 15th centuries, when it became an important commercial and cultural crossroad between the Middle East, India and Eastern Africa. This text describes the incredible and neglected history of the Mogadishu. Rich and rare photographic evidence in the text makes it possible to explore the mosques, ruins, gravestones and residences with their 300-year old beams. The book will be of interest not just to scholars of history and archaeology, but also to anyone concerned by the destruction and decline of the medieval treasures of the first so-called freight village in the Horn of Africa.
Horn and Crescent
Author: Randall L. PouwelsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A major historical study of Islam among the Swahili.
Renewers of the Age
Author: Scott Steven ReesePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004167293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Drawing on locally compiled Arabic language sources, this book offers a comprehensive examination of the role of Muslim scholars as popular intellectuals and reformers in southern Somalia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Peoples of the Horn of Africa
Author: I. M. LewisPublisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN: 9781569021057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book has, from its first publication, been an essential reference tool for research of any aspect of society, history and culture in this part of Africa. Originally published in 1955 as part of the International African Institute's landmark Ethnographic Survey of Africa series, it was reprinted in 1969 with a new bibliography. This new edition contains further supplemental and previously unpublished material based on Professor Lewis' later field research on land-holding systems in the Somali reverine regions.
Khedive Ismail's Army
Author: John P. DunnPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714657042
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides the first detailed examination in English of the Egyptian-Abyssinian War and looks at the root problems that made Ismail's soldiers ineffective, including class, racism, politics, finance, and changing military technology.
The Shaping of Somali Society
Author: Lee V. CassanelliPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512806668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
While recurrent drought, war with neighboring Ethiopia, and a staggering refugee crisis have recently propelled the African nation of Somalia into world headlines, remarkably little is known about the history of this East African country. For the first time, Lee Cassanelli makes available a book-length study of Somalia's precolonial heritage. A nation of nomads, the Somalis have through long experience adapted to a harsh, semidesert environment. While persistently divided by clan, sectarian, and regional loyalties in the past, they have nevertheless come to acquire a compelling sense of their cultural unity and national identity. The Shaping of Somali Society examines the historical experiences of these people while focusing on recurrent themes: a deeply rooted kinship system based on lineages that feud as frequently as they cooperate; the gradual Islamization of the entire society through the work of itinerant Sufi saints; the rise and fall of regional sultanates and long-distance trade networks; and a history of resistance to foreign invaders. To reconstruct the past of this important African society, the author draws on ethnographic and linguistic evidence, travelers' accounts, a substantial body of Somali oral traditions, and recollections gathered during several visits to the country. Using this material and the techniques of traditional historiography, Cassanelli examines the precolonial interplay of environmental, social, economic, and religious forces that produced a society that, though politically fragmented, has been integrated at a number of levels of structure, belief, and behavior. Perhaps more importantly, the author discusses the problems of interpreting the often fragmentary historical data and presents a new framework for studying regional patterns of change in a pastoral setting.
In the Shadow of Conquest
Author: Said S. SamatarPublisher: The Red Sea Press
ISBN: 9780932415707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Somalia
Author: Nina J. FitzgeraldPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This country shares the status of Afghanistan until recently of being without a government. It also seems to be a possible nesting ground for members of the al-Qaeda terror network. Somalia has been in the world spotlight numerous times in the 1990s. This book brings together important issues of Somalia along with a brief version of its history and a selective bibliography.
Somalia, a Country Study
Author: Harold D. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Somalia
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
General study on Somalia - covers history, revolutionary social change, physical geography, demographic aspects, social structure, Islamic religious practice, education, refugees, economy, agriculture, trade, government, legal system, politics, international relations, defence, etc. Bibliography, glossary, maps, photographs, statistical tables.