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

"A major and very timely addition to scholarship both on a theoretical and on an empirical level. The case studies contribute greatly to our understanding of the differences and commonalities of urban centers linked to the Indian Ocean from East Africa to India. This highly readable study ought to become a standard work of reference." — Ulrike Freitag, Free University, Berlin

"Struggling with History represents the latest phase of thinking through what constitutes the Indian Ocean as a region and how to characterize the fluency of its inhabitants. It offers a fascinating repertoire of Muslim politics and history." — Michael Lambek, London School of Economics

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Islam

About the Author

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

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