Challenging Cosmopolitanism

Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Joshua Gedacht, R. Michael Feener (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3510-9 (ISBN)

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Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations of mobility and trans-regional consciousness, however, tend to conflate border-crossing with opportunity and social diversity with ethical progress. At the same time, they generally disregard the ways in which such forms of cosmopolitanism have been entwined with structures of domination, economic control and violence. This volume addresses these issues in ways that help to contextualize contemporary issues such as the global refugee crisis in relation to longer histories of Muslim mobility and coercion.
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.

Joshua Gedacht is Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic World history at Rowan University in New Jersey. Dr. Gedacht received his B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University in Canada and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. R. Michael Feener is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Islamic Centre Lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Research Leader of the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. He has published extensively in the fields of Islamic studies and Southeast Asian history, as well as on post-disaster reconstruction, religion and development.

Preface

Contents

Contributors

R. Michael Feener & Joshua Gedacht

Hijra, Ḥajj, and Muslim Mobilities: Considering Coercion and Asymmetrical Power Dynamics in Histories of Islamic Cosmopolitanism

Bruce B. Lawrence

Islamicate Cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia

Andrew Peacock

Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-Century Indian Ocean: Shariʿa, Lineage, and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives

Simon Carlos Kemper

Shrines, Sufis, and Warlords in Early Modern Java

Tatsuya Nakanishi

Variations of ‘Islamic Military Cosmopolitanism’: The Survival Strategies of Hui Muslims during the Modern Period

Jessica Chen

Writing Cosmopolitan History in Nineteenth-Century China: Li Huanyi’s Words and Deeds of Islamic Exemplars

Joshua Gedacht

The ‘Shaykh al-Islām’ of the Philippines’ and Coercive Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Empire

Amrita Malhi

Bordering Malaya’s ‘Benighted Lands’: Frontiers of Race and Colonialism on the Malay Peninsula, 1887-1902

Magnus Marsden & Diana Ibañez-Tirado

Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View From Yiwu, China

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	4 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-3510-6 / 1474435106
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3510-9 / 9781474435109
Zustand	Neuware