Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Challenging Cosmopolitanism

Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Av Joshua Gedacht, R. Michael Feener

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-21
Mått: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt: 530 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474435093

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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.

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A remarkable exploration of the meanings and histories of diversity--ethnic, religious, economic and political--in Muslim societies across Asia. Refusing to reduce the complex engagements they describe to merely instrumental relations, the volume's authors describe instead the changing ways in which Muslims have understood what it is to be cosmopolitan.

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