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	Islam in South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Islam in South Africa probably predates the colonial period, and consisted of isolated contact with Arab and East African traders.
		Islam was a popular religion among the slaves - its tradition of teaching enabled literate slaves to gain better positions in their masters' households, and the religion taught its followers to treat their own slaves well.
		Since South Africa became a democracy in 1994, there has been a growing number of Muslim migrants from South Asia and North Africa; however, their numbers are fairly low.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam_in_South_Africa (1459 words)

	South America Encyclopedia @ BareHands.com (Bare Hands) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America).
		South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere.
		South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.barehands.com /encyclopedia/South_America (1649 words)

	Cape Malays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Starting in 1654, these resistors were imprisoned or exiled in South Africa by the Dutch East India Company, which founded and used what is now Cape Town as a resupply station for ships traveling between Europe and Asia.
		Because ethnicity is a politically loaded and historically painful topic in South Africa, it can be useful to consider the Cape Malay identity as the product of a set of histories and communities at least as much as it is a real definition of an ethnic group.
		The language and musical style of this genre reflects the history of South African slavery; it is often described and perceived as 'sad' and 'emotional' in content and context.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Malay (790 words)

	South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		South Africa has the largest population of people of European descent in Africa, the largest Indian population in Africa, as well as the largest Coloured (of mixed European and African descent) community in Africa, making it one of the most ethnically diverse countries on the continent.
		South Africa's most prevalent biome is grassland, which is particularly present on the Highveld, where the plant cover is dominated by different grasses, low shrubs, and acacia trees, mainly camel-thorn and whitethorn.
		South Africa is a middle-income country with an abundant supply of resources, well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors, a stock exchange, JSE Securities Exchange, that ranks among the 10 largest in the world, and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centres throughout the region.
	www.zdnet.co.za (4882 words)

	Islam in Africa
		Islam is a crucial cultural, religious and political force throughout Africa, counting more than one-third of the continent’s inhabitants among the faithful.
		Islam is a crucial cultural, religious and political force throughout Africa, yet when one thinks of Africa, the idea that more than a third (307 million) of the continent’s estimated 770 million inhabitants are of Muslim faith may not cross the mind immediately.
		In short, Islam is very much an African religion with African roots and, as such, has been an important part of the political and cultural development and evolution of many African nations.
	www.nuradeen.com /currentissues/IslamInAfrica.htm (1444 words)

	Islam in South Africa - A new book from the University Press of Florida
		In the first English-language study of the subject, Abdulkader Tayob examines the Islamic institutions of South Africa, tracing their development over the last 200 years, from the first European colony in the 17th century through British colonialism and apartheid.
		For outsiders to either Islam or South Africa, Tayob interprets the symbols of Islam, the overly politicized dimensions of South African Islamic life, and the sacred spaces within each community.
		It is based almost entirely on primary South Africa sources and the language and style are very accessible.
	www.upf.com /Spring1999/tayob.html (361 words)

	Islam in South Africa
		South Africa’s leading daily The Citizen’s correspondent Michelle Faul commenting on the rise and renaissance of Islam in Africa says: ‘Young Africans disillusioned by corruption, poverty and decadence they blame on the West, are flocking to ‘Fundamentalist’ Islamic movement.
		Islam is the fastest growing religion on the continent’.
		In South Africa, there are approximately 455 mosques, 408 educational institutes, colleges, Muslim private schools, religious instruction centres, and colleges of Islamic Sciences.
	www.themodernreligion.com /convert/southafrica.html (1067 words)

	Tayob,
		The point being made here is that two groups of Muslims positioned themselves to South Africa at the end of the apartheid era: the one saw its destiny merging with the symbols of the new nation; while the second chose to establish a formal, legal relationship with the new state.
		Thus, for example, Islam in South Africa is regarded as universally and potentially militant, or part of the liberation movement.
		With regard to post-apartheid South Africa, Muslims were re-divided between those who opposed or resisted democracy, and those who endorsed it as the foundation of the new nation.
	www.virginia.edu /woodson/welcome/spring98/tayob1.html (4844 words)

	Islam in Africa
		This article traces the history of Islam since the early seventh century to its current status and emergence as an alternative system for organizing the social, political and economic life of Muslims.
		The greatest socio-political and cultural impact of Islam in the last few decades has understandably been in the Arabised part of the continent, such as Egypt, Sudan and north Africa, which came under Arab-Muslim cultural and political influence during the seventh to eighth centuries -- early in the history of Islam.
		Iqbal Jhazbhay teaches at the University of South Africa and serves on the ANC’s Commission for Religious Affairs.
	www.nuradeen.com /CurrentIssues/IslamInAfrica.htm (1444 words)

	Islamic Terror Not a Problem for SA
		Jhazbhay, a third-generation South African Muslim whose grandfather had been involved with Mohandas Gandhi in establishing the passive-resistance movement, said that the roots of modern radicalism in the local Muslim community largely sprang from the inspiration of the Iranian revolution of 1978-79.
		South Africa has to play a larger role, it has to speak to both sides, as the ANC itself did in its engagement with the apartheid and bantustan authorities".
		South Africa and by colonial and apartheid segregation.
	www.nuradeen.com /CurrentIssues/Terror.htm (1199 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Islamic community of South Africa reflects the same diversity that characterizes the rest of the South African population.
		Islam spread rapidly as a result of institutionalization, and an emphasis on education and literacy.
		South African Muslims come from many cultural traditions but belong to one nation—a dynamic blend of age-old customs and modern ways, building a new South African society to create a better life for all.
	www.islamonline.net /English/artculture/2003/06/article08.shtml (1039 words)

	AllRefer.com - South Africa - Islam - Education \| South African Education \| South African Information Resource
		South Africa's small Muslim community of about 400,000 is gaining new members, especially among fl South Africans, in the 1990s.
		Most South African Muslims are members of the Sunni branch of Islam, although a small Shia sect is becoming more vocal in the 1990s.
		South Africa's industrial economy, with its strong reliance on capital-intensive development, provided relatively few prospects for employment for those who had only minimal educational credentials, or none at all.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/south-africa/south-africa64.html (587 words)

	'Madrassas' a concern in South Africa - Ummah.com
		JOHANNESBURG — Authorities in South Africa are worried that large numbers of Islamic extremists from Pakistan are entering the country illegally to join religious schools or "madrassas," some of which may have links to international terrorism.
		South Africa is believed to be one of the top destinations, in part because of the country's modern communications infrastructure and the widespread use of English.
		Muslim officials in South Africa say there has been a surge in the construction of madrassas in the country in recent years to deal with the influx of foreign students barred from schools in Pakistan and the Middle East.
	www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=24766 (2702 words)

	Islam in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Islam in Africa, the development of the Muslim religion on the African continent.
		African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters between Sufis and Islamists.
		Islam in Britain: 1558-1685; Islam in South Africa; Mosques, Imams and Sermons
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0825603.html (584 words)

	The Cape Malays: An Imagined community in South Africa -
		During the early part of April 1994 the Muslims celebrated the tercentenery of Islam in South Africa, and towards the end of that month they went to the polls along with all the other South African citizens to participate in South Africa's first democratic elections.
		Although she acknowledged that Islam played a pivotal role in shaping their identity, she seemed to prefer the ethnic identity instead of the religious one.
		It may be argued that Bradlow was very much aware of the socio-political changes in the Muslim heartlands and the impact these had had on Muslim minorities and he thus thought it wise to use the religious term instead of the ethnic term.
	phuakl.tripod.com /eTHOUGHT/capemalays2.htm (4288 words)

	Samuel Zwemer's Vision for South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Moslems of South Africa are accessible and live in the midst of Christian communities.
		Yet another of the phenomena which he noticed relative to the Muslims of South Africa, now settled in a Western environment, was the extent of their education and the opportunities which this likewise presented.
		He was clearly impressed by the character of the Muslim community he discovered in South Africa and its remarkable accessibility in contrast with many of the closed Muslim societies in the traditional world of Islam.
	www.answering-islam.org /Gilchrist/Vol2/1b.html (1796 words)

	PAGAD: A Case Study of Radical Islam in South Africa
		The Iranian revolution in 1979 had a massive impact on the consciousness of South African Muslims and led to the formation of the Qibla Mass Movement, an anti-apartheid movement inspired by the universal egalitarian message of the Islamic revolution in Iran.
		The objective of the IUC is to promote Islamic unity in South Africa, as a precursor for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution in the country.
		This “rights-based” environment is compounded by widespread official corruption in South Africa that makes it very easy for skilled and experienced terrorists to operate and further their aims (for instance by acquiring fake documentation) without fear of detection.
	jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369781 (1687 words)

	South Africa - Culture
		There is no single culture of South Africa because of its ethnic diversity, and thus each racial and language group has its own cultural identity.
		South African cuisine is heavily meat-based and has spawned the distinctively South African social gathering known as a braai.
		According to a survey (see results) compiled by the United Nations, South Africa is ranked first for murder by firearm, manslaughter, rape, and assault.
	www.south-africa-data.com /Culture-4.html (591 words)

	ASC \| Library \| Web dossiers - Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
		Their individual research projects, in countries such as Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Tanzania, have covered topics including Muslim youth, Muslim associations and activists, Islamic NGOs, debates about Islamic law, secularism and minority rights, and Muslims and the political process in both conflict and post-conflict settings.
		Sponsored by The Islam in Africa Organisation, founded in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991, with the mandate to “unify Muslims of Africa and give them one voice”.
		Web dossier on Islam in Nigeria, compiled in November 2002 bij the Library of the ASC Leiden, in connection with the implementation of Islamic law (sharia) in the northern states of Nigeria.
	www.ascleiden.nl /Library/Webdossiers/IslamInAfrica.aspx (2563 words)

	Adherents.com: By Location
		"South Africa has a fifth population group, although it is very small and takes no part in the country's political or social life.
		AEF officially began its work in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1889 as the South Africa General Mission under the leadership of Andrew Murray, Mrs.
		24: "estimated 1986 population of South Africa stood at 33,185,000.
	www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_301.html (2821 words)

	South Africa - Religion
		The MCC is the relief and development arm of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches of North America.
		The Digital Imaging Project of South Africa, DISA, is digitizing thirty-five South African periodicals for free online access.
		Provides "Christocentric, Biblical distance education and training to Christians, and pastors..." "The church is broadly Evangelical with an emphasis on the absolute authority of the Scriptures,..." Based in Rivonia, South Africa.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsareligion.html (1042 words)

	South Africa
		Islam and the Ahmadiyya Movement in South Africa
		Though a minority group in South Africa, their position is worsened in that over the years they have allowed themselves to degenerate into a blind Mullah following society.
		Finally, to the hosts of this convention, for your generosity and hospitality, on behalf of the brothers and sisters in South Africa, I thank you all and may Allah bless and reward you.
	www.muslim.org /photos/sa.htm (1345 words)

	Islam in Africa
		To Al-Bakri, the boundries of Ifriqiya were Barga on the East and Tangier on the West, which means that in addition to the Africa proper of the Romans, it included Tripolitania, Numidia and Mauritania.
		Today, by the use of the word Ifiriqiya or Africa, the Arabs as well as non-Arabs mean the entire continent of Africa which includes North Africa (including the Maghrib), East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and South Africa.
		Thus even in those areas where political authority was in the hands of Muslims owing allegiance to the central power of the Caliphate in Damascus or Baghdad, the actual Islamization of the population was generally a fairly slow process of absorption.
	www.cyberistan.org /islamic/islafrica.htm (484 words)

	Islam in Africa, South of the Sahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Thus it appears that Islam plays a still bigger influencing role on the societal developments in Africa south of the Sahara than what has often been assumed.
		Furthermore, the aim of the course is to bring the students closer to an understanding of the ‘practitioners’, i.e.
		Ihle has formerly been related to Centre of Africa Studies for the last 10 years, doing research on Islamic revival movements in West Africa and the consequences on youth of Islamic reform ideas related to education, politics and social mobility.
	www.summeruniversity.org /sw10935.asp (485 words)

	Ummah.com - "History of Muslims in South Africa"
		In 1856, a treatise on Islam in Arabic-Afrikaans, "Kitab Al-Qawl al-Matin Fi Bayaan Umur Din"
		After the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Dr. Abdurahman served for twenty-five years as a member of the Cape Provincial Council, until his death in 1940.
		Soon after the demise of the South African Moslem Association, Muhammad Arshad Gamiet [d +1990] founded the South African Malay Association in 1909 with the aim of furthering educational and social advancement of the Muslims of Cape Town.
	www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=40491 (5133 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.
		South African economic policy is fiscally conservative, but pragmatic, focusing on targeting inflation and liberalizing trade as means to increase job growth and household income.
		South Africa has placed military along the border to stem the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River
	www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/sf.html (1317 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Bin Laden's roots in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yousouf Deedat, 45, of Durban, South Africa confirmed that his Islamic center received substantial funding from the bin Laden family and that Deedat family members often traveled to Saudi-Arabia and had met Osama bin Laden there over the years.
		At least 100,000 Zulu translations of the Koran were distributed in South Africa, say both Islamic and government sources.
		Deedat told the South Africa media that bin Laden had also invited him on a number of occasions to attend his lectures in Saudi Arabia.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25097 (387 words)

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