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Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts : perspectives from the past /

Cosmopolitanism has become a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to ideologies such as nationalism, parochialism and fundamentalism. Much recent discussion of this concept has been situated with contemporary Western self-perceptions, with little inclusion of informati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Aga Khan University. Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (co-publisher.)
Otros Autores: Maclean, Derryl N. (Editor ), Ahmed, Sikeena Karmali (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Colección:Exploring Muslim contexts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts / Derryl N. MacLean
  • Freeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections in the Tanzanian countryside / Felicitas Becker
  • Interrogating Cosmopolitanism in an Indian Ocean setting : thinking through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast / Kai Kresse
  • Translators of empire : colonial cosmopolitanism, Ottoman bureaucrats and the struggle over the governance of Yemen, 1898-1914 / Thomas Kuehn
  • Islampolis, Cosmopolis : Ottoman urbanity between myth, memory and postmodernity / Ariel Salzmann
  • Cosmopolitan cursing in late-nineteenth century Alexandria / Will Hanley
  • Kebabs and port wine : the culinary cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800-1835 / Nile Green
  • Abdur Rahman Chughtai : cosmopolitan Mughal aesthetic in the age of print / Iftikhar Dadi
  • Cosmopolitanism and authenticity : the doctrine of Tashabbuh Biʼl-Kuffar (Imitating the Infidel) in modern South Asian fatwas / Muhammad Khalid Masud
  • About the contributors.