Islamic ecumene comparing Muslim societies
Urdu ethics literature in colonial India: Akhlāq in the vernacular -- Educating Muslim intellectuals: was there a "Persianate" madrasa in nineteenth-century -- Central Asia? -- Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial Etat Civil, 1850-1900 -- British rule and Omani marriage in colonial Zan...
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Cornell University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Urdu ethics literature in colonial India: Akhlāq in the vernacular -- Educating Muslim intellectuals: was there a "Persianate" madrasa in nineteenth-century -- Central Asia? -- Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial Etat Civil, 1850-1900 -- British rule and Omani marriage in colonial Zanzibar -- Kenyan Muslims and the political imagination of space on the Indian Ocean rim -- Sovereignty, slavery, and diplomacy in late eighteenth-century Sulu -- The French Revolution comes to the Indian Ocean: deportation, slavery, and empire in Anjouan -- The politics of identity and religion: Izmir in 1797 -- Religious routes to racial progress in West Africa: Edward Blyden, Islam, and the Gold Coast press -- The Lhasa uprisings of 1959 and 2008: Muslims in a Buddhist land -- Muslims and politics in the Southern Philippines: the 2017 war of Marawi -- Walls, wonder, and the edges of the Muslim world -- Alevi Cemevis and "mosque culture" in Turkey -- Visual depictions of Muslim heroines: Byron's Beauties and American houris -- A Russian Columbus: from Victorian England to Bombay cinema -- Media coverage of Islam in contemporary Germany and the United States -- Muslim devotional singing in two Bengals: a bold experiment -- Reflections on art and nation building: the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar -- Ottoman modernization and the translation bureau -- Reading cultural translation in two "new arrival" Arab American novels -- Transliminal comparisons in the tombstone inscriptions of Muslim and Christian rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia -- The tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen: construction, reconstruction, and destruction. "Islamic Ecumene addresses the ways in which Muslims across the globe participate in a broad cultural unit. In twenty-two essays, scholars examine Muslim societies comparatively, using the methods of historians, anthropologists, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists. They explore Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon reflected in the practices of the more than one billion people"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | "Unbound volume." Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | vii, 321 pages 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781501772399 978-1-5017-7239-9 9781501772382 978-1-5017-7238-2 |