LANGUAGE IDENTITY MODERNITY: The ARABIC STUDY CIRCLE of Durban
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2007
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146 pages
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UKZN - Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
Shamil Jeppie's book tells a fascinating story about a small but significant Durban-based Muslim organization that grappled with the compatibility between Islam and modernity. Jeppie, who is an historian based at the University of Cape Town, divides his book into eight chapters and a useful set of set of end notes and references. Jeppie informs us that 'this work is a modest contribution to the social history of religion, identity and language'(p. 8) with the
intention of enriching historical writing in the post-apartheid period. A little later he states that …
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