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Imperial Muslims : Islam, community and authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 /

A transregional history of Muslim community in the British Empire. The webs, nodes and networks created by Britain's Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are here explored in the context of their personal and social impact. Using the British Settlement of Aden as it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reese, Scott Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a community of Muslims
  • Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary
  • Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests
  • Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe
  • "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority
  • "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community
  • Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity.