Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
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Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
（Society and history in the Indian ocean, a）
Hurst & Company, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : cosmopolitanism contested : anthropology and history in the Western Indian ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse
- Islam in Indian Ocean Africa prior to the scramble : a new historical paradigm / Gwyn Campbell
- The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians / Edward Simpson
- Saints, rebels, and booksellers : Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, ca.1780-1920 / Nile Green
- Cosmopolitanism colonised? : three cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920 / Anne K. Bang
- The 'respectable citizens' of Shaykh Uthman : religious discourse, trans-locality and the construction of local contexts in colonial Aden / Scott S. Reese
- The uses of history : rhetorics of Muslim unity and difference on the Kenyan Swahili coast / Kai Kresse
- Cosmopolitanism beyond the towns : rural-urban relations on the Southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century / Felicitas Becker
- Drumming and praying : Sidi at the interface between spirit possession and Islam / HeleneBasu
- ʿI am gulf' : the production of cosmopolitanism among the Koya Kozhikode, Kerala / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella
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Description
This volume compares and contrasts anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the vexed nature of 'cosmopolitanism'. The chapters contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the study of colonial and post-colonial contexts. There are few books on the market that combine serious interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise with comparable ambition.
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