Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

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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Challenging Cosmopolitanism

Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-x

1 - Hijra, Ḥajj and Muslim Mobilities: Considering Coercion and Asymmetrical Power Dynamics in Histories of Islamic Cosmopolitanism
pp 1-29

2 - Islamicate Cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia
pp 30-52

3 - Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharīʿa, Lineage and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives
pp 53-80

4 - The White Heron Called by the Muezzin: Shrines, Sufis and Warlords in Early Modern Java
pp 81-120

5 - Variations of ‘Islamic Military Cosmopolitanism’: The Survival Strategies of Hui Muslims during the Modern Period
pp 121-144

6 - Writing Cosmopolitan History in Nineteenth-century China: Li Huanyi’s Words and Deeds of Islamic Exemplars
pp 145-171

7 - The ‘Shaykh al-Islām of the Philippines’ and Coercive Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Global Empire
pp 172-202

8 - Bordering Malaya’s ‘Benighted Lands’: Frontiers of Race and Colonialism on the Malay Peninsula, 1887–1902
pp 203-224

9 - Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View From Yiwu, China
pp 225-250

Notes on the Contributors
pp 251-254

Index
pp 255-261

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