- Title
- Burial practices, African women, and Islam in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa
- Creator
- Sesanti, Simphiwe Olicius
- Subject
- Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Muslim women -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Mourning custom -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2004
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:10998
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/346
- Identifier
- Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Muslim women -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Mourning custom -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- Early in 2003, African Muslims in Uitenhage’s township, Kwa-Nobuhle, learnt that Muslim women, led by Sheikh Nceba Salamntu, in South Africa’s Port Elizabeth New Brighton township, were allowed, contrary to previous practice, to follow a funeral procession right up to the graveyard. The resultant discomfort on the one hand, and excitement on the other caused by this event among Muslims in the township, forms the basis of this research. It gives focus to Muslim women, the ones most affected by their customary restriction from the gravesites. The researchi exposes the basis for women’s exclusion from funeral processions in the Muslim community. It was established that many of these Muslim women who challenged the practice were converts from Christianity to Islam. One of the bases for their action was that they were passive recipients of Islam. Furthermore, it was found that the exclusion of women from the funeral procession has no basis in Islamic writings.
- Format
- 159 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Port Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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