01897nam a2200229 a 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230200038000640200018001020400023001200820020001432450126001632600051002893000041003404400044003815040051004255051081004766500023015576500042015807000028016227000017016502271720220701011020.0180723s2008    nyuab    b    001 0 eng    a9781850658795 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a9781850658696  aBD-DhIUBcBD-DhIUB00a303.482182422200aStruggling with history :bIslam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean /cEdward Simpson & Kai Kresse, editors.  aNew York :bColumbia University Press,cc2008.  axxii, 377 p. :bill., maps ;c23 cm. 0aSociety and history in the Indian ocean  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction cosmopolitanism contested : anthropology and history in the Western Indian ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse -- Islam in Indian Ocean Africa prior to the scramble / Gwyn Campbell -- The history of Bhuj as told by its own historians / Edward Simpson -- Saints, rebels, and booksellers : Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, c.1780-1920 / Nile Green -- Cosmopolitanism colonised? : three cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920 / Anne Bang -- The 'respectable citizens' of Shaykh Uthman : religious discourse, trans-locality and the construction of local contexts in colonial / Aden Scott Reese -- The uses of history : rhetorics of Muslim unity and difference on the Kenyan Swahili coast / Kai Kresse -- Cosmopolitanism beyond the towns : rural-urban relations in the history of the Southern Swahili coast in the twentieth century / Felicitas Becker -- Drumming and praying : Sidi at the interface of spirit possession and Islam / HeleneBasu -- Ôi am gulf' : the production of cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India / Filippo Osella & Caroline Osella. 0aIslam and culture. 0aCosmopolitanismzIndian Ocean Region.1 aSimpson, Edward,d1971-1 aKresse, Kai.