Language Identity Modernity

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  • Language Identity Modernity Book Detail

  • Author : Shamil Jeppie
  • Release Date : 2007
  • Publisher : HSRC Publishers
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 148
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 30,30 MB

Language Identity Modernity by Shamil Jeppie PDF Summary

Book Description: Language, Identity, Modernity is a path-breaking and fascinating study of a little-known but, on the author's showing, influential group, the Arabic Study Circle, which emerged around 1950 in Durban, South Africa. Founded by literate Gujarati-speaking Muslims of merchant and professional backgrounds, it had as its seemingly modest goal the encouragement of the study of Arabic for a better understanding of the Koran. Arabic was not then widely known and spoken in South Africa. Indeed, in Durban, the language for teaching and studying Islam was Urdu. Thus in this context, the Circle's mission was innovative and even radical. At that time, prayers at the mosque were led chiefly by Urdu-speaking 'ulama' from South Asia. In this regard, Durban differed from Cape Town, which had an older and different Islamic tradition and whose Muslims were primarily Afrikaans speaking. Thus, although the Circle's purpose was linguistic enhancement, the end was a religious one.

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