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

Struggling with history Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / [Texte imprimé] : Edward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008 - 1 vol. (XXII-377 p.) : ill., cartes ; 23 cm - Society and history in the Indian ocean .

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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

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Islam and culture Cosmopolitanism

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