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Title: | The emergence of Islamic liberation theology in South Africa |
Author: | Palombo, Matthew |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa (ISSN 0022-4200) |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 28-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Islamic movements liberation theology anti-apartheid resistance |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12301272 |
Abstract: | There is a growing interest in Islamic liberation theology today, and authors such as Ali Shariati, Alighar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, and Hamid Dabashi have developed its central commitments. In South Africa the earliest representative text was the 'Review of Faith' by Farid Esack, used by the Call of Islam, an Islamic anti-apartheid organization established 1984, for cultivating personal piety and critical consciousness against apartheid. Based on recent interviews, unpublished manuscripts, and published works, this article demonstrates how Islamic liberation theology emerged in the political praxis of Muslims against settler colonialism and apartheid. In this subaltern history, political Islam as political praxis and not State-building generated a unique discursive space for an Islamic liberation theology to emerge within the confluence of two ideological paths: those of humanism and Islamism. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |