TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reese, Scott S.
AB  - A great deal has been written about the webs, nodes and networks created by Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Much of the focus has been on the political, legal or economic consequences of empire; this book redresses the balance, devoting its attention to the personal and social. Using the British Settlement of Aden, it examines the development of a local Muslim community within the spaces created by imperial rule from the mid-nineteenth through mid-twentieth century. It explores how individuals from widely disparate backgrounds brought together by the networks of empire created a cohesive community utilizing the one commonality at their disposal: their faith. Specifically, it examines how religious institutions and spiritual ideas served as parameters for the creation of community and the kinds of symbolic and cultural capital an individual needed to attain communal membership and influence within the confines of imperial rule.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642736
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1028771683
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30766
KW  - History
KW  - islam
KW  - colonialism
KW  - Indian Ocean
KW  - British Empire
KW  - transregional history
KW  - Islamic reform
KW  - Aden
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Qadi
KW  - Sayyid
KW  - Sufism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30766/1/642736.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30766/1/642736.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30766/1/642736.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38798
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
PY  - 2017-12-31
SN  - 9780748697663
TI  - Imperial Muslims : Islam, Community and Authority in the Indian Ocean, 1839-1937
ER  - 
