Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 /

Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937 /

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A transregional history of Muslim community in the British Empire. 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 it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reese, Scott Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social change.
Religious communities.
Muslims.
British colonies.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Communautes (Religion) > Indien, Region de l'ocean > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Musulmans > Indien, Region de l'ocean > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Social change > Indian Ocean Region > History > 20th century.
Religious communities > Indian Ocean Region > History > 19th century.
Muslims > Indian Ocean Region > History > 19th century.
Indian Ocean Region.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies.
Great Britain > Colonies.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a community of Muslims
  • Hanuman's tunnel : collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab imaginary
  • Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean interests
  • Claims to community : mosques, cemeteries and the universe
  • "The Qadi is not a judge" : the Qadi's courts, community and authority
  • "An innocent amusement" : marginality, spirit possession and the moral community
  • Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity.

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