The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

Author/Contributor(s):	McIntosh, Janet
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	07/29/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Explores ethnoreligious tensions in coastal Kenya between the impoverished Giriama people and their neighbors, the privileged Swahili and Arab communities, and documents the Giriama's idiosyncratic uses of Islam and their conflicted relationship with it.