Abstract
On November 29, 1929, only a month after the stock market crash of 1929, a “great-great-grandson (of Tuan Guru, the then) the Imaum, or Priest, of the Chiappini-Street Mosque,” told a journalist of the Cape Times that: The Circle of Islam around Cape Town and suburbs, prophesied by a holy man of Islam 260 years ago, is now complete. Sketching the circle, the report continued: From Signal Hill, round ZandVleit, Constantia, Bakoven and Robben Island, stretches a long line of kramats, the tomb of Tuans, or holy men of Islam, completing a vast circle within which, if the prophecy of Khardi Abdusalam 260 years ago is correct, all followers of the Prophet Mohammed will henceforth be safe from fire, famine, plague, earthquake and tidal wave.1 Journal for Islamic Studies Vol. 24&25 2004/5: pp. 78-104
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