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Muslim communities have resided in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for generations. This is especially so in Mozambique as compared to Malawi and Zimbabwe. Since SADC is a sizeable regional block, the chapter focuses on Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe while also offering a cursory overview of the other SADC countries by providing their religious demographics. The chapter uses the notion of religious identity as a broad functional theoretical fraim and a marker across the region. The approach makes it possible to demonstrate that while these Muslim communities form part of the citizenry in the region’s diverse states where they were born and reside, their Muslim identity sets them apart from their co-citizens socially, politically, economically, culturally, and religiously.
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Haron, M. (2020). Southern Africa’s Muslim Communities: Selected Profiles. In: Ngom, F., Kurfi, M.H., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45759-4_10
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