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Imperial Muslims : Islam, community and authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 / Scott S. Reese.
LIBRA BP63.A4 I54 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reese, Scott Steven, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--Indian Ocean Region--History--19th century.
- Muslims.
- Religious communities--Indian Ocean Region--History--19th century.
- Religious communities.
- Social change--Indian Ocean Region--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- History.
- Great Britain--Colonies.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- British colonies.
- Indian Ocean Region.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 212 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- The webs, nodes and networks created by Britain's Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are here explored in the context of their personal and social impact. Using the British Settlement of Aden as its focus, the book examines the development of a local community within the spaces created by imperial rule. It explores how individuals from widely disparate backgrounds brought together by the networks of empire created a cohesive community utilising the one commonality at their disposal: their faith. Specifically, it examines how religious institutions and spiritual ideas served as parameters for the creation of community and the kinds of symbolic and cultural capital an individual needed to attain communal membership and influence within the confines of imperial rule. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Hanuman's Tunnel; Collapsing the Space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab Imaginary 17
- 2 Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean Interests 40
- 3 Claims to Community: Mosques, Cemeteries and the Universe 64
- 4 "The Qadi is not a Judge": The Qadi's Courts, Community and Authority 79
- 5 "An Innocent Amusement": Marginality, Spirit Possession and the Moral Community 109
- 6 Scripturalism, Sufism and the Limits of Defining Public Religiosity 138.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748697656
- 0748697659
- OCLC:
- 994316286
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