Under Empire : : Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945 / / Michael Francis Laffan.
An imam banished from eastern Indonesia to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 builds a new Muslim community with a mix of fellow exiles, enslaved people, and even the men tasked with supervising his detention. Nineteenth-century colonial chroniclers invent the legend of the “loyal Malay” warrior, whose a...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliterations, Spelling, and Dates
- Introduction
- Part One. Western Deposits
- One. From the Spice Islands to the Place of Sadness
- Two. Shaping Islam at the Cape of Good Hope
- Three. Sanguinary Attacks and Unruly Passions
- Four. Friends Firm and Warm
- Part Two. Muslim Mediations
- Five. Other Malays, Other Exiles
- Six. Between Shrinking Kandy and Distant Istanbul
- Seven. For Queen, Country, and Caliph in Africa
- Eight. Seven Pashas for Ceylon
- Part Three. Eastern Returns
- Nine. A Caliph for Greater Java
- Ten. For Arabs, Arabic, and the Community
- Eleven. Pan-Islamism, Nationalism, Pan-Asianism
- Twelve. Forgotten Jihad
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index