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Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Society and history in the Indian Ocean
- Society and history in the Indian ocean
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and culture.
- Cosmopolitanism--Indian Ocean Region.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Indian Ocean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Struggling with History compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. Essays contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. Few books combine a comparable level of interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise.
- Contents:
- 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 / 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, c.1780-1920 / Nile Green
- Cosmopolitanism colonised? : three cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920 / Anne Bang
- The 'respectable citizens' of Shaykh Uthman : religious discourse, trans-locality and the construction of local contexts in colonial / Aden Scott 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 in the history of the Southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century / Felicitas Becker
- Drumming and praying : Sidi at the interface of spirit possession and Islam / HeleneBasu
- Ôi am gulf' : the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231700245
- 0231700245
- 9780231700238
- 0231700237
- OCLC:
- 132585296
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