{"product_id":"islamic-ecumene-comparing-muslim-societies-hardback-9781501772382","title":"Islamic Ecumene; Comparing Muslim Societies (Hardback) 9781501772382","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIslamic Ecumene\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComparing Muslim Societies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid S. Powers (Edited by), Eric Tagliacozzo (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501772382\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e330 pages, 6 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 2 maps - 2 Maps - 6 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essays in\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Islamic Ecumene \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaddress the ways in which Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia and from sub-Saharan Africa to the steppes of Uzbekistan are members of a broad cultural unit.\u003c\/b\u003e Although the Muslim inhabitants of these lands speak dozens of languages, represent numerous ethnic groups, and practice diverse forms of Islam, they are united by shared practices and worldviews shaped by religious identity. To highlight these commonalities, the co-editors invited a team of scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine Muslim societies in comparative and interconnected ways. The result is a book that showcases ethics, education, architecture, the arts, modernization, political resistance, marriage, divorce, and death rituals. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing the insights and methods of historians, anthropologists, literary critics, art historians, political scientists, and sociologists, Islamic Ecumene seeks to understand Islamic identity as a dynamic phenomenon that is reflected in the multivalent practices of the more than one billion people across the planet who identify as Muslims.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: Akhlāq in theVernacular\u003cbr\u003e Educating Muslim Intellectuals\u003cbr\u003e Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial État Civil, 1850-1900\u003cbr\u003e British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar\u003cbr\u003e Kenyan Muslims and the Political Imagination of Space on theIndian Ocean Rim\u003cbr\u003e Sovereignty, Slavery and Diplomacy in Late Eighteenth-Century Sulu\u003cbr\u003e The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Identity and Religion\u003cbr\u003e Religious Routes to Racial Progress in West Africa\u003cbr\u003e The Lhasa Uprisings of 1959 and 2008\u003cbr\u003e Muslims and Politics in the Southern Philippines\u003cbr\u003e Walls, Wonder, and the Edges of the Muslim World\u003cbr\u003e Alevi Cemevis and \"Mosque Culture\" in Turkey\u003cbr\u003e Visual Depictions of Muslim Heroines\u003cbr\u003e A Russian Columbus\u003cbr\u003e Media Coverage of Islam in Contemporary Germany andthe United States\u003cbr\u003e Muslim Devotional Singing in the Two Bengals\u003cbr\u003e Reflections on Art and Nation Building\u003cbr\u003e Ottoman Modernization and the Translation Bureau\u003cbr\u003e Reading Cultural Translation\u003cbr\u003e Transliminal Comparisons in the Tombstone Inscriptions ofMuslim and Christian Rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia\u003cbr\u003e The Tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52608203194648,"sku":"9781501772382","price":86.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/islamic-ecumene-comparing-muslim-societies-hardback-9781501772382","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}