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It is hardly surprising that the destruction of the Somali state would inspire the deconstruction of its historiography. Such is the purpose of The Invention of Somalia, whose authors set out to shift through the layers of Somali scholarship - traditional and modem - in order to separate myth from reality.

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Red Sea Press
Language
English
Pages
265

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Subjects
Somalia, politics and government, Politics and government, Clans, Ethnic relations, Somalia, historiography, Africa, historiography, Islam
Places
Somalia, Horn of Africa

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Table of Contents

Islam in Somali History: Fact and Fiction / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar
Aspects of the Benadir Cultural History: The Case of the Bravan Ulama / Mohamed M. Kassim
The Invention of Gosha: Slavery, Colonialism, and Stigma in Somali History / Catherine Besteman
Camels, Intellectuals, Origins, and Dance in the Invention of Somalia: A Commentary / Irving Leonard Markovitz
The Predicament of the Somali Studies / Ahmed Qassim Ali
The Somali Origin: Myth or Reality / Abdi M. Kusow
Contrary to a Nation: The Cancer of the Somali State / Abdalla Omar Mansur
The Nature of the Somali Clan System / Abdalla Omar Mansur
"Daybreak is Near, Won't You Become Sour?" Going Beyond the Current Rhetoric in Somali Studies / Ali Jimale Ahmed
Finely Etched Chattel: The Invention of a Somali Woman / Christine Choi Ahmed [Christine A. Saidi]
Identity, Dance and Islam Among People with Bantu Origins in Riverine Areas of Somalia / Francesca Declich.
On Critiques of the Invention of Somalia / Edward Alpers
The Eastern Horn of Africa, 1000 B.C. to 1400 A.D.: The Historical Roots / Christopher Ehret
Appendix 1: Relationships of Eastern Omo-Tana (Soomaali Languages)

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
967.7305
Library of Congress
DT403.25 .I58 1995, DT403.25.I58 1995

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xv, 265 p. :
Number of pages
265

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OL1111421M
ISBN 10
0932415989, 0932415997
LCCN
94037232
Library Thing
1336539
Goodreads
3787628
803985

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