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Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a ´Christian Ethiopia´ imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.

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Contents Acknowledgement Foreword; Benjamin Soares Introduction: Muslims in Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism; Patrick Desplat & Terje �steb› PART I: CAPACITIES, CONSTRAINTS, NEW WAYS OF LIVING 1. Muslim Struggle for Recognition in Contemporary Ethiopia; Dereje Feyissa 2. Being Young, Being Muslim in Bale; Terje �steb› 3. Religious Change and the Remaking of Boundaries among Muslim Afar Pastoralists; Simone Rettberg PART II: ISLAM, IDENTITY, AND REFORM 4. The Formation of Trans-religious Pilgrimage Centers in Southeast Ethiopia: Sitti Momina and the Faraqasa Connection; Minako Ishihara 5. The Gendering Dimension in Sufi Contestation of Religious Orthodoxy: Representations of Women in a Sufi Shrine at Tiru Sina; Meron Zeleke 6. Negotiating Wali Venerating Practices in Ethiopia: Islamic Reformist Movements and Identity Politics in Siltie Zone; Zerihun A. Woldeselassie 7. Against Wahabism? Islamic Reform, Ambivalence and Sentiments of Loss in Harar; Patrick Desplat PART III: ETHIOPIAN MUSLIMS AND THE HORN OF AFRICA 8. Islam, War and Peace in the Horn of Africa; Haggai Erlich 9. Transborder Islamic Activism in the Horn of Africa: The Case of Tadamun - an Ethiopian Muslim Brotherhood?; Stig Jarle Hansen 10. Ahlu Sunna wa l-Jama´a in Somalia; Roland Marchal and Zakaria M. Sheekh Postscript; Terje �steb› List of Contributors

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"Patrick Despalt and Terje �steb›´s Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism can be regarded as book that indicates the necessity of including Islam and Muslims in Ethiopian studies, particularly in the contemporary period. ... The book is particularly significant as it contain chapters that are written by young Ethiopian scholars. ... These fine scholars have broken down this age-old boundary by objectively writing about Islam and Muslims while being from another faith." (Samson A. Bezabeh, Contemporary Islam, Vol. 10, 2016)

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Dereje Feyissa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Haggai Erlich, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Stig Jarle Hansen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway Minako Ishihara, Faculty of Humanities of Nanzan University, Japan Roland Marchal, National Center for Scientific Research, France Meron Zeleke, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany Simone Rettberg, University of Bayreuth, Germany Zakaria M. Sheekh, Human Rights activist and as a consultant for the UN and Western governments on Somali issues Zerihun Abebe, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway

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