Becoming Arab Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world
Lord Sayyids -- From sea to land -- Categorisation and control -- Scholarship and surveillance -- Turning to Istanbul -- Sayyids remade -- The contested state of modern Arab identity
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Asian connections
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Lord Sayyids -- From sea to land -- Categorisation and control -- Scholarship and surveillance -- Turning to Istanbul -- Sayyids remade -- The contested state of modern Arab identity Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations, schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism, advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its birth |
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| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 259 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781316647493 978-1-316-64749-3 9781107196797 978-1-107-19679-7 |