Abstract
The relations between Southern Arabia and eastern Africa constitute an interesting example of imperfect hegemony in which the dominant groups (notably the omani) clung to a patriarchal conception of power. The limits of the system of domination founded on networks of relatives became apparent with the nineteenth-century European influx. The inability of omani power (incarnated in the Sultan of Zanzibar) to adapt precipitated its decline, since it had always refused to exercise ideological hegemony while Arabo-Islamism had developed an ideal model for integrating the coastal population. Popular islam emerged at the same time as nationalism, often brought to the interior by westernized leaders. The revolution in Zanzibar ended Arab hegemony, although relations between Southern Arabia and eastern Africa continued.
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