Transnational Islam and public sphere dynamics in kwazulu-natal: Rethinking South Africa's place in the Indian ocean world

Africa

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-131

  Kaarsholm, Preben ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; DEMOCRACY; IMMIGRATION; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; ISLAMISM; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

DURBAN; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79956105783     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001972010000069     Document Type: Review

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