Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748697659
ISBN-13
9780748697656
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 30th, 2017
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
484 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Asian history
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Explores the social consequences of Britain's creation of an Indian Ocean empire that brought millions of Muslim subjects under a single political umbrella for the first time in the modern era.
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 its focus, the book examines the development of a local community within the spaces created by imperial rule. It explores how individuals from widely disparate backgrounds brought together by the networks of empire created a cohesive community utilizing the one commonality at their disposal: their faith. Specifically, it examines how religious institutions and spiritual ideas served as parameters for the creation of community and the kinds of symbolic and cultural capital an individual needed to attain communal membership and influence within the confines of imperial rule.
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