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Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
- Title
- Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xxii, 377 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society and history in the Indian ocean
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 08-679
- ISBN
- 9780231700245 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0231700245 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780231700238 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0231700237 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007020790
- OCLC
- 132585296
- Title
- Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Society and history in the Indian ocean
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Simpson, Edward, 1971-Kresse, Kai.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 08-679