Challenging cosmopolitanism : coercion, mobility and displacement in Islamic Asia / edited by Joshua Gedacht and R. Michael Feener.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Intro; Challenging Cosmopolitanism; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Hijra, H˙ajj and Muslim Mobilities: Considering Coercion and Asymmetrical Power Dynamics in Histories of Islamic CCosmopolitanism; 2 Islamicate Cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia; 3 Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-century Indian Ocean: Shariʻa, Lineage and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives; 4 The White Heron called by the Muezzin: Shrines, Sufis and Warlords in Early Modern Java

5 Variations of 'Islamic Military Cosmopolitanism': The Survival Strategies of Hui Muslims during the Modern Period6 Writing Cosmopolitan History in Nineteenth-Century China: Li Huanyi's Words and Deeds of Islamic Exemplars; 7 The 'Shaykh al-Islam̄ of the Philippines' and Coercive Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Empire; 8 Bordering Malaya's 'Benighted Lands': Frontiers of Race and Colonialism on the Malay Peninsula, 1887-1902; 9 Afghanistan's Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View from Yiwu, China; Notes on the Contributors; Index.

Featuring new historical and ethnographic research on China and Southeast Asia, this book explores how power and violence have shaped the experiences of Sufis and state-builders, as well as refugees and rebels, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Islamic cosmopolitanism.

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