Challenging 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.

• PrefaceContentsContributorsR. Michael Feener & Joshua GedachtHijra, Ḥajj, and Muslim Mobilities: Considering Coercion and Asymmetrical Power Dynamics in Histories of Islamic CosmopolitanismBruce B. LawrenceIslamicate Cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast AsiaAndrew PeacockSufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-Century Indian Ocean: Shariʿa, Lineage, and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the MaldivesSimon Carlos KemperShrines, Sufis, and Warlords in Early Modern Java Tatsuya NakanishiVariations of ‘Islamic Military Cosmopolitanism’: The Survival Strategies of Hui Muslims during the Modern PeriodJessica ChenWriting Cosmopolitan History in Nineteenth-Century China: Li Huanyi’s Words and Deeds of Islamic ExemplarsJoshua GedachtThe ‘Shaykh al-Islām’ of the Philippines’ and Coercive Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global EmpireAmrita MalhiBordering Malaya’s ‘Benighted Lands’: Frontiers of Race and Colonialism on the Malay Peninsula, 1887-1902Magnus Marsden & Diana Ibañez-TiradoAfghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View From Yiwu, ChinaIndex

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.