Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts : : Perspectives from the Past / / Derryl N. MacLean, Sikeena Karmali Ahmed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: MacLean, Derryl N.,; Karmali Ahmed, Sikeena,
• MitwirkendeR: Becker, Felicitas,; Dadi, Iftikhar,; Green, Nile,; Hanley, Will,; Kresse, Kai,; Kuehn, Thomas,; MacLean, Derryl N.,; Masud, Muhammad Khalid,; Salzmann, Ariel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts : EMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 7 B/W halftones

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsLooks at moments in world history when cosmopolitanism pervaded Muslim societiesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748689859','ISBN:9780748644568','ISBN:9780748644575','ISBN:9780748656097']);This collection of 9 essays focuses on instances in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures. The contributors explore the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states. Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to closed human group ideologies such as tribalism, nationalism and fundamentalism. Recent discussions of it have been situated within Western self-perceptions. Now, this volume explores it from Muslim perspectives. Key FeaturesContributors include Felicitas Becker, Thomas Kuehn, Ariel Salzmann, Iftikhar Dadi and Muhammed Khalid MasudChoses models from 4 areas: the Swahili coast, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, Iran and Indo-Pakistan, showing the differences and similarities between areasEach region is covered in 2 chapters, providing a basis for comparison "

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts -- Chapter 2 Freeborn Villagers: Islam and the Local Uses of Cosmopolitan Connections in the Tanzanian Countryside -- Chapter 3 Interrogating “Cosmopolitanism” in an Indian Ocean Setting: Thinking Through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast -- Chapter 4 Translators of Empire: Colonial Cosmopolitanism, Ottoman Bureaucrats and the Struggle over the Governance of Yemen, 1898–1914 -- Chapter 5 Islampolis, Cosmopolis: Ottoman Urbanity Between Myth, Memory and Postmodernity -- Chapter 6 Cosmopolitan Cursing in Late Nineteenth-Century Alexandria -- Chapter 7 Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800–1835 -- Chapter 8 Abdur Rahman Chughtai: Cosmopolitan Mughal Aesthetic in the Age of Print -- Chapter 9 Cosmopolitanism and Authenticity: The Doctrine of Tashabbuh Bi’l-Kuffar (“Imitating the Infidel”) in Modern South Asian Fatwas -- About the Contributors -- Index