In:
Die Welt des Islams, Brill, Vol. 58, No. 2 ( 2018-05-15), p. 143-172
Abstract:
The Russian Muslim Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857-1944) was not only a successful journalist and reform-minded Islamic scholar. He was also a transnational activist who became influential in different local contexts, notably Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan. During his four-month stay in Japan in 1909, he cooperated with Japanese pan-Asianists and helped found the first pan-Asianist society, which focused on building ties between Japan and Asia’s Muslims. Researchers have predominantly regarded İbrahim as a pioneering figure in an emerging anti-Western coalition of pan-Islamists and pan-Asianists, or as a Muslim missionary aspiring to convert Japan to Islam. This article will demonstrate, however, that İbrahim’s pro-Japanese pan-Asianism, as well as his missionary zeal, should both be read as flexible stances in reaction to the expectations of different publics. An ostentatious pan-Asianism and the exaggeration of his missionary success equally served the transnational activist to attract attention and assert his importance in varying local contexts.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0043-2539
,
1570-0607
DOI:
10.1163/15700607-00582P01
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
2018
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2067160-X
SSG:
0
SSG:
6,21
SSG:
6,23
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