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Exploring Muslim Contexts ISMC Series
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Volume 4: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
: Perspectives from the Past
Derryl N. MacLean
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Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
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Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Civilisations.
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Exploring Muslim Contexts
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Books in the series include
Development Models in Muslim Contexts:
Chinese, “Islamic” and Neo-Liberal Alternatives
Edited by Robert Springborg
The Challenge of Pluralism:
Paradigms from Muslim Contexts
Edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary
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Ethnographies of Islam:
Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices
Edited by Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret,
Paulo G. Pinto and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
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Perspectives from the Past
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Perspectives from the Past
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Contents
List of Figures vii
1. Introduction: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts 1
Derryl N. MacLean
2. Freeborn Villagers: Islam and the Local Uses of Cosmopolitan
Connections in the Tanzanian Countryside 10
Felicitas Becker
3. Interrogating “Cosmopolitanism” in an Indian Ocean Setting:
Thinking Through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast 31
Kai Kresse
4. Translators of Empire: Colonial Cosmopolitanism, Ottoman
Bureaucrats and the Struggle over the Governance of Yemen,
1898–1914 51
Thomas Kuehn
5. Islampolis, Cosmopolis: Ottoman Urbanity Between Myth,
Memory and Postmodernity 68
Ariel Salzmann
6. Cosmopolitan Cursing in Late Nineteenth-Century Alexandria 92
Will Hanley
7. Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of
Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800–1835 105
Nile Green
8. Abdur Rahman Chughtai: Cosmopolitan Mughal Aesthetic
in the Age of Print 127
Iftikhar Dadi
Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
9. Cosmopolitanism and Authenticity: The Doctrine of Tashabbuh
Bi’l-Kuffar (“Imitating the Infidel”) in Modern South Asian Fatwas 156
Muhammad Khalid Masud
About the Contributors 176
Index 180
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Figures
5.1 Jewish Society lottery ticket, 1874. Dimensions 20.5 x 22.5 mm.
Reproduced with kind permission of the author. 81
8.1 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Mughal Artist, c. 1950s. Etching.
Dimensions 24.7 x 20.9 cm. (Collection of Nighat and Imran Mir.
Reproduced with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai
© Chughtai Museum Trust, Lahore.) 129
8.2 Cover of Chatterjee’s Picture Albums, a series of bound plates in full
colour. 29 x 21 cm. 130
8.3 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Arjuna, illustration in Chughtai’s Indian
Paintings, 1951. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a. (Reproduced
with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai © Chughtai Museum
Trust, Lahore.) 133
8.4 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, illustration and illumination of the first
couplet of Divan-i Ghalib (Urdu), in Muraqqa‘-i Chughta’i, 1928.
23 x 16 cm. (Reproduced with kind permission of Arif Rahman
Chughtai © Chughtai Museum Trust, Lahore.) 135
8.5 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, The Wasted Vigil, illustration in Muraqqa‘-i
Chughta’i, 1928. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a. (Reproduced
with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai © Chughtai Museum
Trust, Lahore.) 136
8.6 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Eve of the Future, illustration in ‘Amal-i
Chughta’i, 1968. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a. (Reproduced
with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai © Chughtai Museum
Trust, Lahore.) 141
Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
8.7 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Mourning for Baghdad, illustration in
‘Amal-i Chughta’i, 1968. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a.
(Reproduced with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai
© Chughtai Museum Trust, Lahore. 142
8.8 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, The Desert in Love, illustration in ‘Amal-i
Chughta’i, 1968. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a. (Reproduced
with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai © Chughtai Museum
Trust, Lahore.) 145
8.9 Abdur Rahman Chughtai, The Story Teller, illustration in ‘Amal-i
Chughta’i, 1968. Watercolour on paper. Dimensions n.a. (Reproduced
with kind permission of Arif Rahman Chughtai © Chughtai Museum
Trust, Lahore.) 148
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