Contesting ‘Orthodoxy’: The Tablighi–Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s
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https://doi.org/10.1080/1360200032000139956
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Muslims constitute less than 2% of South Africa's population. In a context where divisions of race, ethnicity and class predominated, schisms among South Africa's Muslims have been largely overlooked in the country's historiography. Notwithstanding the tendency of outsiders to view Muslims as a cultural and timeless whole, Islam has never functioned as an organic unity in South Africa. The most obvious distinction is between Indian and Malay Muslims with their different histories, cultures and traditions. Most Indian Muslims are confined to …
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