Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean

Edited by Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse

Paper, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70024-5
$32.50

January, 2008
Cloth, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70023-8
$79.50

Struggling with History compares anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the conflicted nature of cosmopolitanism. Essays contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the examination of colonial and postcolonial contexts. Few books combine a comparable level of interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise.

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Islam

About the Author

Edward Simpson is lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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