Struggling with history
Subtitle: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
By: Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors.
Contributors: Simpson, Edward, 1971-; Kresse, Kai.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231700245; 9780231700238
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction cosmopolitanism contested : anthropology and history in the Western Indian ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse; title: Islam in Indian Ocean Africa prior to the scramble / Gwyn Campbell; title: The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians / Edward Simpson; title: Saints, rebels, and booksellers : Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, c.1780/1920 / Nile Green; title: Cosmopolitanism colonised? : three cases from Zanzibar, 1890/1920 / Anne Bang; title: The 'respectable citizens' of Shaykh Uthman : religious discourse, trans-locality and the construction of local contexts in colonial / Aden Scott Reese; title: The uses of history : rhetorics of Muslim unity and difference on the Kenyan Swahili coast / Kai Kresse; title: Cosmopolitanism beyond the towns : rural-urban relations in the history of the Southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century / Felicitas Becker; title: Drumming and praying : Sidi at the interface of spirit possession and Islam / HeleneBasu; title: Ôi am gulf' : the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella.