TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venosa,Joseph L.
TI  - Paths toward the nation: Islam, community, and early nationalist mobilization in Eritrea, 1941-1961 
T2  - Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series
SN  - 9780896802896
AV  - DT395.3 .V46 2014
U1  - 963.506 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Eritrea
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Political activity
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Africa
KW  - East
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1941-1952
KW  - 1952-1962
KW  - Érythrée
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Islam, community, and the cultural politics of Eritrean nationalism --; Early rumblings : Muslim activism in British-occupied Eritrea, April 1941-November 1946 --; Founding success : the Muslim League and the early nationalist movement, November 1946-December 1947 --; Navigating rough seas : the Muslim League's internal challenges, January 1948-September 1949 --; Maintaining momentum : the Muslim League and its rivals, September 1949-December 1950 --; Holding the line : institutional autonomy and political representation on the federation's eve, December 1951-September 1952 --; Struggling for autonomy : the disintegrating federation, October 1952-December 1957 --; New beginnings at the federation's end : Muslim mobilization, popular resistance, and diaspora activism, January 1958-September 1961
N2  - In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region. During the late 1940s and 1950s, the scope of these concerns slowly expanded as the nascent nationalist movement brought together Muslim activists with the increasingly disaffected community of Eritrean Christians. The Eritrean Muslim League emerged as the first genuine proindependence organization in the cou
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