Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / / Scott S. Reese.
Explores the social consequences of Britain's creation of an Indian Ocean empire that brought millions of Muslim subjects under a single political umbrella for the first time in the modern era.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a community of Muslims
- Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary
- Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests
- Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe
- "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority
- "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community
- Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity.