Portuguese Colonialism and Islam

In Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslimcommunities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiationspresented a complexity to which the administrative power was often unprepared. The exercise ofthis governance, with all the variations that characterized it, extended throughout the period thatthe colonial project lasted, from the phase of effective military occupation, in the transition fromthe nineteenth to the twen