Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts

Derryl N. MacLean is Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, and Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is author of Religion and Society in Arab Sind (Brill, 1989). Sikeena Karmali Ahmed is the Manager of Publications at The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Places to Remember, and an award-winning novel entitled A House by the Sea.

MacLean and Ahmed are to be commended for bringing together such a wide range of scholarship under the same theoretical umbrella.

• 1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts, Derryl N. MacLean; 2. Freeborn Villagers: Islam and the Local Uses of Cosmopolitan Connections in the Tanzanian Countryside, Felicitas Becker; 3. Interrogating ‘Cosmopolitanism’ in an Indian Ocean Setting: Thinking Through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast, Kai Kresse; 4. Translators of Empire: Colonial Cosmopolitanism, Ottoman Bureaucrats and the Struggle over the Governance of Yemen, 1898–1914, Thomas Kuehn; 5. Islampolis, Cosmopolis: Ottoman Urbanity Between Myth, Memory and Postmodernity, Ariel Salzmann; 6. Cosmopolitan Cursing in Late-Nineteenth Century Alexandria, Will Hanley; 7. Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800–1835, Nile Green; 8. Abdur Rahman Chughtai: Cosmopolitan Mughal Aesthetic in the Age of Print, Iftikhar Dadi; 9. Cosmopolitanism and Authenticity: The Doctrine of Tashabbuh Bi’l-Kuffar (‘Imitating the Infidel’) in Modern South Asian Fatwas, Muhammad Khalid Masud; About the Contributors.