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Edinburgh University Press Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts Perspectives form the Past by Derryl N MacLean and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
This collection of 9 essays focuses on how cosmopolitan ideas and actions have been enacted by specific Muslim societies and cultures throughout history. The contributors explore the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states. Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to closed human group ideologies such as tribalism, nationalism and fundamentalism. Recent discussions of it have been situated within Western self-perceptions. Now, this volume explores it from Muslim perspectives in 4 areas: the Swahili coast, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, Iran and Indo-Pakistan. *Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations*