Changing of the Guards:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Changing of the Guards: "
Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067417
Doc. No	:	LA111046
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21540993-00902001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim
Title & Author	:	Changing of the Guards: [Article] : Politico-Religious Authority and Islamic Education in Mogadishu, Somalia\ Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Islamic Africa
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/2
Page No	:	133–162
Abstract	:	This article analyzes the impact of “modern” education on Shari’a practice and authority in Mogadishu, Somalia. More specifically, the article looks at the influence of graduates from modern Islamic universities on the Shari’a court movement in Mogadishu. The Shari’a Courts of Mogadishu, as they are now known, began to emerge in the Somali capital after the disintegration of the previous regime in early 1991. The Courts were formed in various neighborhoods in the city at different times throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. They were organized and run by neighborhood religious authorities and traditional elders. The Courts were thus independent of each other. When the Courts began to unify starting in 2003, a new group of elites educated in modern Islamic universities played an important role in their unification. This article looks at the education and socialization of these elites and how their rise to power changed Shari’a practice and authority.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	authority
Descriptor	:	bureaucratization
Descriptor	:	education
Descriptor	:	intellectual/educational network
Descriptor	:	Islamic movements
Descriptor	:	Religion
Descriptor	:	Shari‘a
Descriptor	:	Somalia
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21540993-00902001‬