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"Islamic Ecumene addresses the ways in which Muslims across the globe participate in a broad cultural unit. In twenty-two essays, scholars examine Muslim societies comparatively, using the methods of historians, anthropologists, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists. They explore Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon reflected in the practices of the more than one billion people"--
List of contents
Introduction
Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: Akhl¿q in theVernacular
Educating Muslim Intellectuals
Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial État Civil, 1850-1900
British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar
Kenyan Muslims and the Political Imagination of Space on theIndian Ocean Rim
Sovereignty, Slavery and Diplomacy in Late Eighteenth-Century Sulu
The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean
The Politics of Identity and Religion
Religious Routes to Racial Progress in West Africa
The Lhasa Uprisings of 1959 and 2008
Muslims and Politics in the Southern Philippines
Walls, Wonder, and the Edges of the Muslim World
Alevi Cemevis and "Mosque Culture" in Turkey
Visual Depictions of Muslim Heroines
A Russian Columbus
Media Coverage of Islam in Contemporary Germany andthe United States
Muslim Devotional Singing in the Two Bengals
Reflections on Art and Nation Building
Ottoman Modernization and the Translation Bureau
Reading Cultural Translation
Transliminal Comparisons in the Tombstone Inscriptions ofMuslim and Christian Rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia
The Tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen
About the author
edited by David S. Powers and Eric Tagliacozzo
