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REVIEWS KING, Noel [Quinton], KASOZI, Abdu and ODED, Arye. Islam and the confluence of religion in Uganda (AAR Studies in Religion 6). Tallahassee, Florida: American Academy of Religion 1973. 60 pp. $ 3.00. 0.88420.105.8. In this little book Professor King tells the story of Ugandan Islam with the help of a Muslim and a Jewish scholar; all three formerly worked at Makerere University, and the book though brief has taken many years in writing. It is charmingly done and anyone interested in the history of Ugandan religion must be grateful for it. Islam arrived in Uganda before Christianity and the authors well demonstrate how considerable Mutesa's commitment to it at one time was. So little has been said about early Ganda Islam that the history of the wars of religion in the i88os often seems to make rather little sense. How was it that, at least for a time, the Muslims could drive out the king, the Catholics and the Protestants? Subsequently they took a very sub- sidiary place and the country developed as a predominantly christian community; but the Muslim population in several areas was by no means negligible, as King shows, and its traditional pattern of
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1976
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