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

Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors

(Society and history in the Indian ocean, a)

Hurst & Company, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • 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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