Islamic Ecumene : : Comparing Muslim Societies / / ed. by David S. Powers, Eric Tagliacozzo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Powers, David S.,; Tagliacozzo, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 6 b&w halftones, 2 maps

The essays in Islamic Ecumene address the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit. Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and pra...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1 ETHICS, MORAL RECTITUDE, AND EDUCATION
• Introduction
• 1. Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: Akhlāq in the Vernacular
• 2. Educating Muslim Intellectuals: Was There a “Persianate” Madrasa in Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century?
• Part 2 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND POSTCOLONIAL AFTERMATHS
• Introduction
• 3. Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial État Civil, 1850–1900
• 4. British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar
• 5. Kenyan Muslims and the Political Imagination of Space on the Indian Ocean Rim
• Part 3 COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY: THE UMMA BELOW THE WINDS
• Introduction
• 6. Sovereignty, Slavery, and Diplomacy in Mid- Eighteenth-Century Sulu
• 7. The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean: Deportation, Slavery, and Empire in Anjouan
• Part 4 RELIGION, POLITICS, RACE, AND IDENTITY
• Introduction
• 8. The Politics of Identity and Religion: Izmir in 1797
• 9. Religious Routes to Racial Progress in West Africa: Edward Blyden, Islam, and the Gold Coast Press
• 10. The Lhasa Uprisings of 1959 and 2008: Muslims in a Buddhist Land
• 11. Muslims and Politics in the Southern Philippines: The 2017 War of Marawi
• Part 5 WALLS, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE OTHER
• Introduction
• 12. Walls, Wonder, and the Edges of the Muslim World
• 13. Alevi Cemevis and “Mosque Culture” in Turkey
• Part 6 REPRESENTING MUSLIMS: POETRY, FILM, AND NEWS MEDIA
• Introduction
• 14. Visual Depictions of Muslim Heroines: Byron’s Beauties and American Houris
• 15. A Russian Columbus: From Victorian England to Bombay Cinema
• 16. Media Coverage of Islam in Contemporary Germany and the United States
• Part 7 MUSIC, ART, AND THE NATION
• Introduction
• 17. Muslim Devotional Singing in Two Bengals: A Bold Experiment
• 18. Reflections on Art and Nation Building: The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar
• Part 8 TRANSLATION, MODERNIZATION, AND CULTURE
• Introduction
• 19. Ottoman Modernization and the Translation Bureau
• 20. Reading Cultural Translation in Two “New Arrival” Arab American Novels
• Part 9 REMEMBERING—AND FORGETTING—THE DEAD
• Introduction
• 21. Transliminal Comparisons in the Tombstone Inscriptions of Muslim and Christian Rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia
• 22. The Tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen: Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Index