Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts

Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
Author: Derryl N MacLean
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 074865609X

Focuses on moments in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures, exploring the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states.

Muslim Cosmopolitanism

Muslim Cosmopolitanism
Author: Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474408907

Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society. Organised around six key themes that interweave the connected histories of three countries in Southeast Asia - Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia - this book shows the ways in which historical actors have promoted better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the region. Case studies from across these countries of the Malay world take in the rise of the network society in the region in the 1970s up until the early 21st century, providing a panoramic view of Muslim cosmopolitan practices, outlook and visions in the region.

Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts

Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
Author: Aga Khan University. Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2012
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781784023591

This collection of 9 essays focuses on instances in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures. The contributors explore the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states.

Struggling with History

Struggling with History
Author: Edward Simpson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231700238

Struggling with History compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. Essays contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. Few books combine a comparable level of interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise.

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
Author: Seema Alavi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2015-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674735331

Seema Alavi challenges the idea that all pan-Islamic configurations are anti-Western or pro-Caliphate. A pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires became the basis of a global Muslim sensibility—a political and cultural affiliation that competes with ideas of nationhood today as it did in the last century.

Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa

Shi'i Cosmopolitanisms in Africa
Author: Mara A. Leichtman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253016053

Mara A. Leichtman offers an in-depth study of Shi'i Islam in two very different communities in Senegal: the well-established Lebanese diaspora and Senegalese "converts" from Sunni to Shi'i Islam of recent decades. Sharing a minority religious status in a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, each group is cosmopolitan in its own way. Leichtman provides new insights into the everyday lives of Shi'i Muslims in Africa and the dynamics of local and global Islam. She explores the influence of Hizbullah and Islamic reformist movements, and offers a corrective to prevailing views of Sunni-Shi'i hostility, demonstrating that religious coexistence is possible in a context such as Senegal.

Rethinking Islamic Studies

Rethinking Islamic Studies
Author: Carl W. Ernst
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611172314

A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era Rethinking Islamic Studies upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, one that includes religious studies and other politically infused fields of inquiry. Editors Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin, along with a distinguished group of scholars, map the trajectory of the study of Islam and offer innovative approaches to the theoretical and methodological frameworks that have traditionally dominated the field. In the volume's first section the contributors reexamine the underlying notions of modernity in the East and West and allow for the possibility of multiple and incongruent modernities. This opens a discussion of fundamentalism as a manifestation of the tensions of modernity in Muslim cultures. The second section addresses the volatile character of Islamic religious identity as expressed in religious and political movements at national and local levels. In the third section, contributors focus on Muslim communities in Asia and examine the formation of religious models and concepts as they appear in this region. This study concludes with an afterword by accomplished Islamic studies scholar Bruce B. Lawrence reflecting on the evolution of this post-Orientalist approach to Islam and placing the volume within existing and emerging scholarship. Rethinking Islamic Studies offers original perspectives for the discipline, each utilizing the tools of modern academic inquiry, to help illuminate contemporary incarnations of Islam for a growing audience of those invested in a sharper understanding of the Muslim world.

Muslim Cosmopolitanism

Muslim Cosmopolitanism
Author: Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474408893

Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to produce the necessary contexts for mutual tolerance and shared respect between and within different groups in society. Organised around six key themes that interweave the connected histories of three countries in Southeast Asia - Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia - this book shows the ways in which historical actors have promoted better understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims in the region. Case studies from across these countries of the Malay world take in the rise of the network society in the region in the 1970s up until the early 21st century, providing a panoramic view of Muslim cosmopolitan practices, outlook and visions in the region.

Islam in Europe

Islam in Europe
Author: Nilfer Gle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011
Genre: Cosmopolitanism
ISBN: 9781558765252

Islam in Europe is a book full of striking images: the assassination of and the death threats against artists and intellectuals; violent demonstrations demanding Sharia law for Europe; and acts of terrorism. ... But there is another reality, as Nil�fer G�le describes it from her own life experience: Muslims who are politicians in European parliaments; scholars teaching at European universities; and artists who use this creative intercultural exchange as a theme in their art. ... G�le sees the best hope for a modern and European Islam in the Muslim women who--in contrast to the men--demonstrate their commitment to their heritage by wearing head scarfs while participating in modern Western life. In manifesting their professional and public experience in their own communities, they become the agents of change and modernism. G�le thus sees European Islam as "feminine," in contrast to the male-dominated traditional Islam.

Challenging Cosmopolitanism

Challenging Cosmopolitanism
Author: R. Michael Feener
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474435122

The first study of nineteenth-century replication across art, literature, science, social science and humanities