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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783813003321

Titolo

Muslim societies [[electronic resource] ] : historical and comparative aspects / / edited by Sato Tsugitaka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge Curzon, 2004

ISBN

0-203-68466-4

1-280-05479-4

0-203-40108-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

New horizons in Islamic area studies

Altri autori (Persone)

TsugitakaSato

Disciplina

909/.09767

Soggetti

Muslims - Europe

Muslims - Asia

Muslims - Africa, North

Islam - 1800-

Islamic civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

MUSLIM SOCIETIES Historical and comparative aspects; Copyright; CONTENTS; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Islam in Middle Eastern studies - Muslims and minorities; 2 Sufism and foreign rule in Africa: politics and piety; 3 The Andijan Uprising reconsidered; 4 Faction struggles among the Bukharan ulama during the colonial, the revolutionary and the early Soviet periods (1868-1929): a paradigm for history writing?; 5 "Majorities" and "minorities" in modern South Asian Islam: a historian's perspective; 6 The politics of a Partition Riot: Calcutta in August 1946

7 Muslims in Western Europe: sociohistorical developments and trends8 Comment 1: symbiosis and confiict: reflections on Andalusi history and historiography; 9 Comment 2: a discussion including the Middle East; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the eighteenth century to the present, providing fresh insight through comparison. Movements and populations covered include the nineteenth century North African



Sansusi movement and its relationships to Sufis and Arabs of the region, Soviet and Chinese Central Asia, Muslim-Hindu relationships in South Asia, Muslims in Syria and Muslim immigrants in Europe.