Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean /

Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xxii, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. - Society and history in the Indian ocean .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction cosmopolitanism contested : anthropology and history in the Western Indian ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse -- Islam in Indian Ocean Africa prior to the scramble / Gwyn Campbell -- The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians / Edward Simpson -- Saints, rebels, and booksellers : Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, c.1780-1920 / Nile Green -- Cosmopolitanism colonised? : three cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920 / Anne Bang -- The 'respectable citizens' of Shaykh Uthman : religious discourse, trans-locality and the construction of local contexts in colonial / Aden Scott Reese -- The uses of history : rhetorics of Muslim unity and difference on the Kenyan Swahili coast / Kai Kresse -- Cosmopolitanism beyond the towns : rural-urban relations in the history of the Southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century / Felicitas Becker -- Drumming and praying : Sidi at the interface of spirit possession and Islam / HeleneBasu -- Ôi am gulf' : the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella.

9781850658795 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781850658696


Islam and culture.
Cosmopolitanism--Indian Ocean Region.

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