ISBN:
9780748644568
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (199 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Exploring Muslim Contexts
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts : Perspectives from the Past
DDC:
303.4821767
Keywords:
Islamic civilization
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Muslims -- Relations
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Islamic countries -- History
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Islamic countries -- Relations
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Islamic countries -- Civilization
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Looks at moments in world history when cosmopolitanism pervaded Muslim societies.This volume focuses on instances in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures, exploring the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states. Models from the past are chosen from 4 geographic areas: the Swahili coast, the Ottoman Empire/ Turkey, Iran and Indo-Pakistan. Each region is covered in 2 chapters, proving a basis for the comparison of specific cosmopolitan instances in Muslim contexts.Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts / Derryl N. MacLeanFreeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections in the Tanzanian countryside / Felicitas Becker -- Interrogating Cosmopolitanism in an Indian Ocean setting : thinking through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast / Kai Kresse -- Translators of empire : colonial cosmopolitanism, Ottoman bureaucrats and the struggle over the governance of Yemen, 1898-1914 / Thomas Kuehn -- Islampolis, Cosmopolis : Ottoman urbanity between myth, memory and postmodernity / Ariel Salzmann -- Cosmopolitan cursing in late-nineteenth century Alexandria / Will Hanley -- Kebabs and port wine : the culinary cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800-1835 / Nile Green -- Abdur Rahman Chughtai : cosmopolitan Mughal aesthetic in the age of print / Iftikhar Dadi -- Cosmopolitanism and authenticity : the doctrine of Tashabbuh Biʼl-Kuffar (Imitating the Infidel) in modern South Asian fatwas / Muhammad Khalid Masud -- About the contributors.
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