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Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean

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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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Additional Authors
  • Simpson, Edward, 1971-
  • Kresse, Kai.
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
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