Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350378674)

Revealing Portugal's counterinsurgent spying on Muslims during Mozambique's liberation struggle, this book uses archival and field work to study Muslim responses to counterinsurgency and armed nationalism that led to Mozambique's freedom from colonial rule. Paying particular attention to the intricate set of realities Muslims faced during the colonial war, and their responses to Portuguese efforts to woo them against armed nationalism, Ara?jo shows how some elements of the Muslim community supported Portuguese counterinsurgency, while others defied it.

Exploring complex interconnections between Muslim culture, Portuguese intelligence-gathering practices, and colonial and nationalist propaganda, Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique brings a novel insight to the study of colonial counterinsurgency. Drawing scholarly attention to view this period of Portuguese colonisation as a matrix of lived realities pushing and pulling Muslim communities in opposite directions, this study enhances our understanding of colonial security strategies in Mozambique during the liberation war and their legacies in the post-colonial era.

Author: Sandra Marisa de Silva Carlos Ara?jo
ISBN-10: 1350378674
ISBN-13: 9781350378674
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2025
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d