Summarized from Azumah, Beachey, and P.W. Harrison:
As early as the 9th century, the Zanj, according to the great Arab historian al-Tabari, were employed in gangs between 500 and 5000…
African indigenous “pagans” and Conversion:
“African languages have no equivalent for the Western word “religion” or indeed “ritual” so to consider the religions of Christianity and Islam, they have to…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14729342.2015.1101226
In feminist theory, the personal is the political. On International Women's Day I dedicate to my forefathers, who were either killed, ethnically cleansed or persecuted and fled. Here are pictures…
The following is my personal experience, it may or may not correspond to what others experience. No one can or (using an imperative) should judge a culture or history of…
1979: Jonathan Duncan, head from the then Zamorin of Calicut, gave an account of how, from April 1788, the Muslim ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, despairing of subduing the Hindu…
"Most people join Christianity (and Islam) from what we call secondary motives. It seems to be a fact that religions have little chance of spreading upon their own merit. Freedom…
Prof. Azumah says, “…we cannot afford to look meaningfully into the future without full knowledge of the past. … when one party in the dialogue assumes self-righteous stance and make…
“Traditional Muslim thought and attitudes towards non-Muslims, like most other aspects of mainstream Islamic thought, were firmly grounded in the Quranic text, hadiths and juristic opinions formulated under the environment…