Islam and the European Empires

Zusatztext The scholarship is, by and large, of high-quality, full of insight and thought-provoking. It is highly recommended as a worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in this area. Informationen zum Autor David Motadel is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. A graduate of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar, he has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Yale and Oxford. Klappentext The first comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring an array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance and contributing to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world. Zusammenfassung The first comparative account of the engagement of all major European empires with Islam in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring an array of themes, ranging from the accommodation of Islam under imperial rule to Islamic anti-colonial resistance and contributing to our understanding of religion and power in the modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Islam and Imperial Rule 1: Robert D. Crews: The Russian Worlds of Islam 2: John Slight: British Imperial Rule and the Hajj 3: Eric Tagliacozzo: The Dutch Empire and the Hajj 4: Julia Clancy-Smith: Islam and the French Empire in North Africa 5: Felicitas Becker: Islam and Imperialism in East Africa II. Islam and Anti-Colonial Resistance 6: Umar Ryad: Anti-Imperialism and the Pan-Islamic Movement 7: Benjamin D. Hopkins: Islam and Resistance in the British Empire 8: Knut S. Vikør: Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa 9: Michael A. Reynolds: Mobilisation of Muslims in the Caucasus 10: Gerrit Knaap: Islamic Resistance in the Dutch Colonial Empire III. Islam and Colonial Knowledge 11: Rebekka Habermas: Debates on Islam in Imperial Germany 12: Faisal Devji: Islam in British Imperial Thought 13: George R. Trumbull IV: French Colonial Knowledge of Maraboutism 14: Cemil Aydin: Islam and the European Empires in Japanese Imperial Thought ...

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• Authors: David Motadel, David (Research Fellow in History Motadel
• Assisted by: David Motadel (Editor), David (Research Fellow in History Motadel (Editor), Motadel David (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780199668311
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966831-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Peace Psychology Book Series; The Past and Present Book Series; The Past & Present Book Series; Past & Present Books; Past and Present Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Islam / History, Islamic Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Religion, Colonialism and imperialism, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic