Müslümanlar arasında Hıristiyanlar: Kuzey Sudan’daki İngiliz Kilise Misyoner Topluluğu

Year 2024, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 64 - 93, 11.06.2024

Translator: Celal Öney

Abstract

Church Missionary Society misyonerleri 1899’da Müslümanları Protestanlığa dönüştürmek amacıyla kuzey Sudan’a geldi. Anglo-Mısır hükümeti tarafından kısıtlanan ve müjdecilik (Protestan mezhebini tebliğ etme) faaliyetlerine karşı yerel muhalefet nedeniyle altmış yıllık çalışmaları sırasında sadece bir Müslüman din değiştirdi. Misyonerler yine de şehir merkezlerinde ve Nübya Dağları’nda tıbbi ve eğitim hizmetleri sağladılar ve kız okullarına öncülük ettiler. Ancak Sudanlı mezunlarının çok azı işlevsel Arapça okuryazarlığına ulaşabildi, çünkü misyonerler pratik uygulamalardan yoksun, Latin harfleriyle yazılmış bir konuşma Arapçası biçimi olan “romanize Arapça” öğretiyorlardı. Dolayısıyla, Kuzey Sudan’daki CMS’nin tarihi, sömürge bağlamında eğitim, güç ve dini kimlik konularına dair iç görüler sunmaktadır.

Keywords

Misyonlar, Sudan, İslam, eğitim, toplumsal cinsiyet.

Christians among Muslims: The Church Missionary Society in the Northern Sudan

Abstract

Church Missionary Society missionaries arrived in the northern Sudan in 1899 with the goal of converting Muslims. Restricted by the Anglo- Egyptian government and by local opposition to their evangelism, they gained only one Muslim convert during sixty years of work. The missionaries nevertheless provided medical and education services in urban centers and in the Nuba Mountains, and pioneered girls' schools. Yet few of their Sudanese graduates achieved functional Arabic literacy, since missionaries taught 'romanized Arabic', a form of written colloquial Arabic, in Latin print, that lacked practical appli- cations. Thus the history of the CMS in the northern Sudan yields insights into issues of education, power and religious identity within a colonial context.

Keywords

missions, Sudan, Islam, education, gender.

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