Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
(Society and history in the Indian ocean, a)
Hurst & Company, c2007
- : casebound
- : paperback
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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
Description and Table of Contents
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.
by "Nielsen BookData"