Anthropological Research on the regional diversities and networks among Islamic Religion in the East African Goast

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The purpose of the research is to explore regional diversities and networks among Islamic religion in the East African Coast(including the coast hinterland and the offshore islands) and to elucidate how various local articulations of the image of Islam are correlated with the patterns of distributions of Islamic knowledge through the regional Islamic networks in the East Africa coast.More specifically our research has three analytical foci.Firstly, to analyze the dynamics of multiple networks through which Islamic knowledge and discourses are distributed in this region.Secondly, to analyze the dynamic interaction of the globalization and localization of Islam Working at the same time in each local context, where in most cases both Muslim and Non-Muslim populations coexist.Thirdly, to explore the cultural strategy of the people that appropriate the Islamic practice or representation in the intricate boundary between Muslim and Non-Muslim people.These different approaches and analytical foci put together, it is expected we will obtain the more nuanced understanding and new theoretical insights on Islamic religion and its socio-cultural dynamism in specific contexts to the East African coastal societies.