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

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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