Title: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts : perspectives from the past /
Authors: Maclean, Derryl N.; Ahmed, Sikeena Karmali; Aga Khan University.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Muslims Civilization.; Muslims Relations.; Islamic countries History.; Islamic countries Relations.; Islamic countries Civilization.
Abstract: Cosmopolitanism has become a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to ideologies such as nationalism, parochialism and fundamentalism. Much recent discussion of this concept has been situated with contemporary Western self-perceptions, with little inclusion of information from historical Muslim contexts. This volume redresses the balance by focusing attention on instances in modern world history where cosmopolitan ideas and practices pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures.--cover.
Contents: Introduction : cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts / Derryl N. MacLean -- Freeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections in the Tanzanian countryside / Felicitas Becker -- Interrogating Cosmopolitanism in an Indian Ocean setting : thinking through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast / Kai Kresse -- Translators of empire : colonial cosmopolitanism, Ottoman bureaucrats and the struggle over the governance of Yemen, 1898-1914 / Thomas Kuehn -- Islampolis, Cosmopolis : Ottoman urbanity between myth, memory and postmodernity / Ariel Salzmann -- Cosmopolitan cursing in late-nineteenth century Alexandria / Will Hanley -- Kebabs and port wine : the culinary cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800-1835 / Nile Green -- Abdur Rahman Chughtai : cosmopolitan Mughal aesthetic in the age of print / Iftikhar Dadi -- Cosmopolitanism and authenticity : the doctrine of Tashabbuh Biʼl-Kuffar (Imitating the Infidel) in modern South Asian fatwas / Muhammad Khalid Masud -- About the contributors.