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Record Nr.

UNINA9910772084203321

Autore

Gedacht Joshua

Titolo

Challenging cosmopolitanism : coercion, mobility and displacement in Islamic Asia / / edited by Joshua Gedacht and R. Michael Feener [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, UK, : Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, , 2018

ISBN

1-4744-5366-X

1-4744-3512-2

1-4744-3511-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

297.095

Soggetti

Islam - Asia - History

Cosmopolitanism - Islamic countries

Cosmopolitanism - Asia

Muslims - Asia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hijra, Ḥajj and Muslim mobilities: considering coercion and asymmetrical power dynamics in histories of Islamic cosmopolitanism / R. Michael Feener and Joshua Gedacht -- Islamicate cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Sufi cosmopolitanism in the seventheenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharīʻa, lineage and royal power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives / A.C.S. Peacock -- The white heron called by the muezzin: shrines, sufis, and warlords in early modern Java / Simon C. Kemper -- Variations of 'Islamic military cosmopolitanism': the survival strategies of Hui Muslims during the modern period / Tatsuya Nakanishi -- Writing cosmopolitan history in nineteenth-century China: Li Huanyi's Words and deeds of Islamic exemplars / J. Lilu Chen -- The "Shaykh al-Islām of the Philippines" and coercive cosmopolitanism in an age of global empire / Joshua Gedacht -- Bordering Malaya's 'benighted lands': frontiers of race and colonialism on the Malay Penninsula, 1887-1902 / Amrita Malhi -- Afghanistan's cosmopolitan trading networks: a view



from Yiwu, China / Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez-Tirado.

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring new historical and ethnographic research on China and Southeast Asia, this book explores how power and violence have shaped the experiences of Sufis and state-builders, as well as refugees and rebels, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Islamic cosmopolitanism.