CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
4. SOURCES xi
5. ABOUT THE AUTHOR xii
6. Maps xiii
7. PROLOGUE APPROACHING PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE IN A SWAHILI CONTEXT 1
8. PART I COORDINATES – THEORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, HISTORY
9. 1 TOWARDS AN ‘ANTHROPOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY’: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE AND INTELLECTUAL PRACTICE IN AFRICA 9
10. 2 THE SWAHILI CONTEXT MOMBASA, THE OLD TOWN AND KIBOKONI 36
11. 3 A NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THINKERS KNOWLEDGE, DISCOURSE AND EAST AFRICAN ISLAM 70
12. PART II CONTEXTUAL PORTRAYALS OF LOCAL INTELLECTUALS
13. 4 AHMED SHEIKH NABHANY SWAHILI POETRY AND THE CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE 103
14. 5 AHMAD NASSIR’S POETICAL MORAL THEORY UTU – HOW HUMAN BEINGS OUGHT TO BEHAVE 139
15. 6 THE RAMADHAN LECTURES OF SHEIKH ABDILAHI NASSIR: THE SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF A POLITICALLY MINDED ISLAMIC SCHOLAR 176
16. PART III RECONSIDERING ETHNOGRAPHY, RECONSIDERING THEORY
17. 7 COUNTERPOINTS AND CONTINUITIES: THE YOUNGER GENERATION INTERGENERATIONAL IDIOMS – EXPERIENCE AND PERSPECTIVES 209
18. EPILOGUE APPROACH AND FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES 231
19. Appendices
20. APPENDIX 1 AHMED SHEIKH NABHANY 240
21. APPENDIX 2 SHEIKH ABDILAHI NASSIR 247
22. NOTES 251
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 267
24. INDEX 283