Full Description
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.
Contents
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
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