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C.M.S. Contact With Islam in East Africa Before 1914

C.M.S. Contact With Islam in East Africa Before 1914 C.M.S. CONTACT WITH ISLAM IN EAST AFRICA BEFORE 1914 BY JAMES D. HOLWAY (Nairobi, Kenya) The first Muslims arrived in East Africa little more than a century a.fter the founding of Islam 1). Since then successive additions to the Muslim population have taken place by migration from Arabia and India, and at the same time an indigenous Muslim population has developed. But until the nineteenth century Muslims had penetrated scarcely twenty kilometres inland. The first Christians reached East Africa in 1408. These Portuguese Roman Catholics also confined their activities to the coast, and although some progress was made in prop- agating their faith amongst the indigenous population, nothing per- manent remained after they finally withdrew to the south of Cape Delgado in 1729. Apart from the Portuguese interlude Muslims have had twelve hundred years of unrivalled opportunity for spreading Islam amongst the people of East Africa. This Muslim monopoly of the religious field ended in 1844 when Johann Ludwig Krapf arrived at Mombasa as a missionary of the Anglican Church lVIissionary Society (CMS). With his arrival Islam once again faced Christianity, and the modern history of Christian missions in East Africa began. But by 1844 Muslim traders had http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

C.M.S. Contact With Islam in East Africa Before 1914

Holway, James D.
Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 4 (3): 200 – Jan 1, 1972
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© 1972 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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10.1163/157006672X00042
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C.M.S. CONTACT WITH ISLAM IN EAST AFRICA BEFORE 1914 BY JAMES D. HOLWAY (Nairobi, Kenya) The first Muslims arrived in East Africa little more than a century a.fter the founding of Islam 1). Since then successive additions to the Muslim population have taken place by migration from Arabia and India, and at the same time an indigenous Muslim population has developed. But until the nineteenth century Muslims had penetrated scarcely twenty kilometres inland. The first Christians reached East Africa in 1408. These Portuguese Roman Catholics also confined their activities to the coast, and although some progress was made in prop- agating their faith amongst the indigenous population, nothing per- manent remained after they finally withdrew to the south of Cape Delgado in 1729. Apart from the Portuguese interlude Muslims have had twelve hundred years of unrivalled opportunity for spreading Islam amongst the people of East Africa. This Muslim monopoly of the religious field ended in 1844 when Johann Ludwig Krapf arrived at Mombasa as a missionary of the Anglican Church lVIissionary Society (CMS). With his arrival Islam once again faced Christianity, and the modern history of Christian missions in East Africa began. But by 1844 Muslim traders had

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Published: Jan 1, 1972

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