TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,Edward
AU  - Kresse,Kai
TI  - Struggling with history: Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean 
SN  - 9781850658795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 303.4821824 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Islam and culture
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
N1  - 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
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