Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast

by Kai Kresse

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Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done from the perspective of an 'anthropology of philosophy', a project which is spelled out in the opening...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0748627863

ISBN13:9780748627868

Release Date:May 2007

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality

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