Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa : Sittī 'Alawiyya, the Uncrowned Queen.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Transliteration List -- Introduction -- Sufism, Colonialism and Gender Dynamics -- Sufism and the Female Body -- Chapter 1 Islamic Renewal Movements, Colonial Occupation, and the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region -- Islam and the Idrīsī Tradition in Northeast Africa -- The Establishment of the Ḫatmiyya in the Red Sea Region -- Chapter 2 Sufis at the Crossroads: Regional Conflicts and Colonial Penetration -- The Ḫatmiyya up against the Sudanese Mahdī -- A Marriage Alliance between the Mīrġanī and the Beni ʿAmer People -- Sīdī Hāšim: Spy or walī? -- Chapter 3 Islam, Gender and Leadership -- Female Heirs by Blood Alone: A Power Vacuum? -- Women and Heresy in Sufi Centres -- Embodying Religious Orthodoxy -- Chapter 4 Fragmented, (In)Visible and (Un)Told Stories -- Looking for Muslim Women in Northeast African History -- Regional Women's Centres of Empowerment and Religious Learning -- Baraka, Itinerant Preaching and the Mobility of Pious Women -- Chapter 5 Sufi Women's "Fantasy", Performances and Fashion -- Imagination and Desire in Women's Bodies -- Women's Fantasia in Sufi Regional Centres -- Visiting a Fashionable, Cosmopolitan Woman -- Chapter 6 Growing Visibility in the Political Arena -- Women's Bodies, Photography, and Colonialism -- Growing Popularity Broadcast through Visual Media -- Visibility, Visuality and Power in Portraits of the Šarīfa -- Chapter 7 Marvels, Charisma and Modernity -- Performed and Contested Karāmāt -- Modern Enchantment: Colonial Technologies and Infrastructures -- Mediating Conflicts -- Chapter 8 Military Bodies: Askaris, Officials and "the Female Warrior" -- Religious Intermediaries and Regional Networks -- Enlisting Askaris and Colonial Propaganda -- The Defeat of Italy.

Chapter 9 A Female Icon of Muslim "Emancipation" for the Conquest of Ethiopia (1936-1941) -- Building Mosques: Muslim Policies from Libya to Ethiopia -- A Female Icon of Muslim "Emancipation" -- The Mosques Built in Honour of Sittī ʿAlawiyya -- Muslim Attitudes towards the Italian Occupation: From Collaboration to Agency -- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Sufi Memories -- Women's Embodied Archives and Spirit Possession -- Embodying Sittī ʿAlawiyya's Visit to Harar -- Sufi Visions and Historical Imagination -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Islam and Gender in Colonial Northeast Africa, Silvia Bruzzi provides a social history of the colonial encounter across the Red Sea and the Mediterranean region during the life and times of Sittī 'Alawiyya (1892-1940), the 'Uncrowned Queen' of Eritrea.

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