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Between 2012 and 2016 several Muslim clerics were murdered in Uganda: there is still no consensus as to who was responsible. In this book Joseph Kasule seeks to explain this by examining the colonial and postcolonial history of the Muslim minority and questions of Muslim identity within a non-Muslim state. Challenging prevalent scholarship that has homogenized Muslims' political identity, Kasule demonstrates that Muslim responses to power have been varied and multiple. Beginning with the pre-colonial political community in Buganda, and Muteesa I's attempted Islamization of the country using Islam as a centralizing ideology, the author discusses how the political status of Islam and Muslims in Uganda has been defined under successive regimes.

Africa, East --- Islam --- History --- Religion --- Muslims --- Crimes against --- Uganda --- Religion. --- Uganda. --- Abdul Hakim Ssentamu. --- Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). --- Captain Frederick D. Lugard. --- Colonial governance. --- Governance. --- Idi Amin. --- Islam in pre-colonial Buganda. --- Islam. --- Islamization of Buganda. --- Jamil Mukulu. --- Kabaka Muteesa I. --- Multifurcated society. --- Murder of Muslim clerics. --- Muslim minority. --- Muslims. --- Mwera Agreement. --- Prince Nuhu Mbogo. --- Salafism. --- Secularism. --- Statecraft. --- Taligh. --- Uganda Muslim Supreme Council. --- Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. --- governmentality.