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Last Update: 09:15 GMT, Wed., July 12, 2006 / Jumada Thani 16, 1427

Muslim Affairs > Special Folders > Origins

 

Origins

A Brief History of Muslims in South Africa

When did Islam first reach South Africa? Who were South Africa's first Muslims? This flash file introduces the debated facts and figures, offering a glimpse of the experience of the Muslim minority in South Africa, their origins, their life under apartheid and the ideas that shaped their discourse in the post-apartheid era.

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From the Heart of Darkness

To understand contemporary Islam in South Africa, one has to first take a historical journey down the centuries and across the world’s great oceans. The growth and survival of Islam in South Africa is a phenomenon possessing characteristics not always common to the rest of the Muslim world.



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