Liazzat Bonate
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Liazzat Bonate J.K. is a Ms, PhD Candidate. She works for Eduardo Mondlane University at Maputo, Mozambique. Bonate is an expert at Islam in Africa & in Mozambique: Sufism and Sufi Orders; Islam and gender; Islamic politics; Islamic education, movements, organizations and NGOs; Islamic law. The regions she specialized in are Mozambique; Africa; Middle East; Central Asia and former USSR.
[edit] Publications
- From Shirazi into Monhé: Angoche and the Mainland in the Context of the Nineteenth Century Slave Trade in Northern Mozambique, in B. Zimba, E. A. Alpers and A. Isaacman, Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in South-eastern Africa, Maputo, 2005, pp. 195-219.
- Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique, in Journal of Religion in Africa, Brill, Volume 36, Number 2, 2006, pp. 139-166.
- Dispute over Islamic Funeral Rites in Mozambique. A Demolidora dos Prazeres by Shaykh Aminuddin Mohamad, in Le Fait Missionnaire, Lausanne, No 17, Dec.-2005.
- Roots of Diversity in Mozambican Islam, in Lusotopie, Brill (forthcoming).
- Background paper on Central Asia and Northern Caucasus, contribution to A. An-Na’im Islamic Family Law; A Global Resource Book. Zed, 2002.
