Challenging Cosmopolitanism Coercion Mobility And Displacement In Islamic Asia Joshua Gedacht R Michael Feener by Joshua Gedacht; R. Michael Feener 9781474435116, 1474435114 instant download after payment.

Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations of mobility and trans-regional consciousness, however, tend to conflate border-crossing with opportunity and social diversity with ethical progress. At the same time, they generally disregard the ways in which such forms of cosmopolitanism have been entwined with structures of domination, economic control and violence. This volume addresses these issues in ways that help to contextualize contemporary issues such as the global refugee crisis in relation to longer histories of Muslim mobility and coercion.

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.

• Chapter 3 –'Sufi Cosmopolitanism in the Seventeenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharıʿa, Lineage and Royal Power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives' by A. C. S. Peacock
• Chapter 9 – 'Afghanistan’s Cosmopolitan Trading Networks: A View from Yiwu, China' by Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez-Tirado

• Provides historical context for understanding contemporary issues of religious identity, displacement, violence and national belonging
• 2 synoptic essays and 7 historical case studies explain the role of coercion in shaping the worlds of mobile and cosmopolitan Muslims
• Case studies include Andalusian Spain and contested visions of Islamic cosmopolitanism; Hui Muslims in Qing Dynasty and Republican China; Sufis in the early modern Indian Ocean World; Muslim Rebels and Rulers in colonial-era Southeast Asia; Afghan Traders in contemporary China

• R. Michael Feener, University of Oxford
• Joshua Gedacht, Rowan University
• Bruce Lawrence, Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Istanbul
• Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews
• Simon C. Kemper, Leiden University
• Tatsuya Nakanishi, Kyoto University
• Jessica Chen, Graduate Theological Union, Center for Islamic Studies
• Amrita Malhi, The Australian National University
• Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex
• Diana Ibañez-Tirado, University of Sussex