HIS367H5 Lecture Notes - Premarital Sex, Somali Diaspora, Quran
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Lecture 6 case study: the somali diaspora in london and toronto. Video: show the way that poetry is used to transmit political ideas. Objecting to the way that alshbab using political situation. The person on the horse is a person famous for being an anti-colonial poet. About five to seven years, there were a great integration of somalians into the united kingdom and toronto. The reason for studying this was because there was a great opportunity to study and compare these two places. What were some things that they hung onto, different cultures, etc. Mystical islam feel your way into enlightenment and not text oriented. With the move to the west, led primarily by somalian women, they tried to redefine muslim. What does it mean to be muslim and somalian: everyone who made that moved was traumatized and endured horrific things. They had lost property, businesses, livelihoods, and had seen horrific things that had happen to family members.
