Scott S. Reese

Imperial Muslims (eBook, ePUB)

Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474432528
• Artikelnr.: 56521570

Autorenporträt

Scott S. Reese is Professor of Islamic History at Northern Arizona University and author of Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir (Brill, 2008) and The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa (Brill, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Hanuman's Tunnel: Collapsing the space between Hind and Arabia in the
Arab imaginary
2. Aden, The Company and Indian Ocean Interests
3. Claims to Community: Mosques, Cemeteries and the Universe
4.'The Qadi is not a Judge': The Qadi's Courts, Community and Authority
5.'An innocent amusement': Marginality, Spirit Possession and the Moral
Community
6. Scripturalism, Sufism and the limits of defining public religiosity
Conclusions
Bibliography