RT Article
T1 The Ahmadis of Cape Town and the Spectre of Heresy: Polemics, Apostates and Boycotts
JF Islamic Africa
VO 13
IS 1
SP 66
OP 85
A1 Mahomed, Nadeem
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1808827880
AB The principal issue which this paper addresses is the identity and status of the minority Ahmadi community within the larger majoritarian Sunni Muslim community in Cape Town (itself a minority in the country), which was characterised by hostility, violence and exclusion perpetrated against the Ahmadi community. By examining archival material, local Muslim publications and interviews regarding events that transpired during the 1960s, I will argue that the tools of public avowal and socio-economic boycotts were wielded as weapons to buttress the authority of a Sunni clerical leadership as custodians of an orthodox Islamic heritage and a Sunni iteration of Islamic theology and Muslim life against what was considered to be a heretical manifestation in the form of Ahmadiyyat.
K1 Sectarianism
K1 Religious Conflict
K1 Sunni orthodoxy
K1 Muslim Minorities
K1 Heresy
K1 Orthodoxy
K1 South Africa
K1 Islam
K1 Ahmadi/Ahmadiyya
DO 10.1163/21540993-01202007