Format:
1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
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6 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
9780748697663
Content:
A transregional history of Muslim community in the British EmpireThe 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.Key FeaturesExplores 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 eraThe case of Aden allows an examination of a community that was created by the colonial moment, rather than just shaped by itShows how individuals drawn together from enormously diverse geographic, cultural and social backgrounds manage the realities of everyday life together via a common Islamic discursive traditionProvides insight into how believers accessed an Islamic ontology and shared concepts of the universe, along with more observable institutions to shape their community within the confines of imperial rule
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Map 1 British Aden
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Map 2 The Indian Ocean and its commercial routes
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Map 3 Yemen in the nineteenth century
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Introduction: A Community of Muslims
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1. Hanuman’s Tunnel: Collapsing the Space between Hind and Arabia in the Arab Imaginary
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2. Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean Interests
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3. Claims to Community: Mosques, Cemeteries and the Universe
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4. “The Qadi is not a Judge”: The Qadi’s Courts, Community and Authority
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5. “An Innocent Amusement”: Marginality, Spirit Possession and the Moral Community
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6. Scripturalism, Sufism and the Limits of Defining Public Religiosity
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Conclusions
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748697656
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780748697656
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9780748697663
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