Religion and Diaspora: Islam as Ancestral Heritage in Mauritius

Orientation towards a point of political and historical allegiance outside the boundaries of the nation-state is often taken to be a defining quality of diasporas, and this aligns with the ubiquitous tendency of Islamic practice to engage with sources of long-distance, or indeed global, religious au...

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Autor principal: Eisenlohr, Patrick 1967- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Brill 2016
En: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Año: 2016, Volumen: 5, Número: 1, Páginas: 87-105
Otras palabras clave:B Islam Mauritius South Asia heritage citizenship
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Sumario:Orientation towards a point of political and historical allegiance outside the boundaries of the nation-state is often taken to be a defining quality of diasporas, and this aligns with the ubiquitous tendency of Islamic practice to engage with sources of long-distance, or indeed global, religious authority. In this article, I shall investigate the dimensions of religious and political long-distance allegiances by analysing Mauritian Muslims as a diasporic formation. Looking at debates between proponents of Barelwi, Deobandi and Salafi traditions of Islam and disagreements between Urdu and Arabic as ‘ancestral languages’, I show the malleability of diasporic orientations manifest in such ‘ancestral culture’. This is not just a matter of theological contestation, but represents forms of belonging driven by local politics in a context where the state privileges the engagement with major, standardised forms of religious tradition as ancestral heritage.
ISSN:2211-7954
Obras secundarias:In: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22117954-12341320