Muslim identities and political strategies: A case study of Muslims in the greater Cape Town area of South Africa, 1994-2000

Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Research problem......Page 10
The Aim of the Study......Page 12
Literature survey......Page 13
Methodology......Page 15
Political systems and discourses......Page 16
The contextualized emergence of Islam......Page 19
Sacred and social orders......Page 22
Individual, social and communal identities......Page 26
Diverse understandings of social justice......Page 29
Human rif´ghts and Islam......Page 31
Unity and pluralism......Page 32
Egalitarianism and differentiation......Page 35
Space and place......Page 36
Social capital......Page 37
Authority and the specialist interpreters of Islam......Page 39
Religion, politics and the public sphere......Page 40
Religious identity politics and conflict......Page 43
The spectrum of relations between rulers, ulama and Sufi shykhs......Page 44
The caliphate in Sunni Muslim thought......Page 46
The requirements, accession and role of political leaders......Page 49
Obedience to rulers......Page 50
Authority and legitimacy......Page 51
Midlevel processes in collective action......Page 53
The political system......Page 55
The state......Page 56
Democracy......Page 57
Citizenship and rights......Page 58
Muslim minorities in Muslim countries......Page 61
Strategies of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries......Page 63
The founding of the Muslim community......Page 66
Slavery and the growth of the Muslim population......Page 69
Diverse doctrines and Islam as a source of identity......Page 71
Space and community......Page 73
The dominant 19th century Cape mosque discourse......Page 76
British rule and Muslim accommodationist politics......Page 79
Assertive Muslim group politics in the 1880s......Page 80
Muslim politics through Coloured mobilization in the 1980s......Page 82
Muslim, Malays and other identities......Page 83
Indiam Muslims......Page 84
Language......Page 86
The Union of South Africa......Page 87
Group areas......Page 90
Muslim and Cloured politics......Page 91
Islamic discourses and opposition politics......Page 94
The period of transition......Page 97
Islamic discourses, Muslim identies and group politics......Page 99
The diverse Muslim population......Page 101
Age and education......Page 115
Socio-economic differences and social bonding......Page 118
Geographical clustering......Page 121
The competition for authority......Page 126
Conclusion......Page 138
The context of PAGAD\'s emergence......Page 141
The emergence of PAGAD......Page 144
PAGAD\'s different phases and approaches......Page 148
PAGAD as an organization......Page 158
The impact on the state\'s fight against crime......Page 169
The impact on Muslims......Page 172
The heterogeneous new political order......Page 181
The dominant executive and Muslim options......Page 189
The national elections of 27 April 1994......Page 191
The local elections of 29 May 1996......Page 198
The national elections of 2 June 1999......Page 203
The local elections of 5 December 2000......Page 207
Results......Page 214
Conclusion......Page 215
Islamic historical and cultural heritage......Page 219
The anti-Islamic international order......Page 220
Conspiracy theories......Page 222
The preference for Islamist movements......Page 225
Saudi Arabia......Page 227
Iran......Page 229
Bosnia and Kosovo......Page 231
Palestine......Page 233
Anti-Jewish sentiments and the Holocaust......Page 238
Islamist extremism......Page 239
Tricentenary re-ethnicization......Page 242
Global interactions......Page 244
Migrants and a new Muslim community......Page 245
Limited authority of foreign Muslim governments......Page 247
Conclusion......Page 248
Constitutional democracy......Page 250
Islam and politics in a minority situation......Page 251
Cooperation with other faith groups......Page 256
Clerics and the ANC government......Page 257
Muslim Personal Law (PL)......Page 259
Constitutional democracy and an Islamic state......Page 265
Islam and human rights......Page 267
The gender issue......Page 273
The IUC and a transformed state......Page 275
Economic solidarity and divisions......Page 277
Muslim religions, communal and political authorities......Page 279
Islamic space and infrastructure......Page 281
Conclusion......Page 283
9 Conclusions......Page 287
Contested dimensions of Muslim identies......Page 288
The clerics and religious and community leadership......Page 293
PAGAD and the challenging of codes......Page 294
Elections......Page 296
An increased transnational focus......Page 298
Symbolic order......Page 299
Political strategies......Page 301
Assessment......Page 302
Glossary......Page 306
Abbreviations......Page 308
Bibliography......Page 310