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Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire

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Description for Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 501 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 43. Weight in Grams: 910.

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire recovers the stories of five Indian Muslim scholars who, in the aftermath of the uprising of 1857, were hunted by British authorities, fled their homes in India for such destinations as Cairo, Mecca, and Istanbul, and became active participants in a flourishing pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires. Seema Alavi traces this network, born in the age of empire, which became the basis of a global Muslim sensibility—a form of political and cultural affiliation that competes with ideas of nationhood today as it did in the previous ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674735330
SKU
V9780674735330
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Ref
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About Seema Alavi
Seema Alavi is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.

Reviews for Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire is an exhilarating book encompassing broad swaths of trans-imperial history, religio-cultural geography and a stunning breadth of vision… In the current times, when Muslims, for a variety of reasons, have become victims of insularity and ghettoization, Alavi’s book is a potent antidote to the widespread but ill-informed media narrative about Muslim resistance to ... Read more

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