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Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire

English · Hardback

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Seema Alavi challenges the idea that all pan-Islamic configurations are anti-Western or pro-Caliphate. A pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires became the basis of a global Muslim sensibility¿a political and cultural affiliation that competes with ideas of nationhood today as it did in the last century.

About the author

Seema Alavi is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.

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Seema Alavi challenges the idea that all pan-Islamic configurations are anti-Western or pro-Caliphate. A pan-Islamic intellectual network at the cusp of the British and Ottoman empires became the basis of a global Muslim sensibility—a political and cultural affiliation that competes with ideas of nationhood today as it did in the last century.

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