Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1 ETHICS, MORAL RECTITUDE, AND EDUCATION
5. Introduction 11
6. 1. Urdu Ethics Literature in Colonial India: Akhlāq in the Vernacular 13
7. 2. Educating Muslim Intellectuals: Was There a “Persianate” Madrasa in Central Asia in the Nineteenth Century? 26
8. Part 2 COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND POSTCOLONIAL AFTERMATHS
9. Introduction 43
10. 3. Algerian Personal Names and the Colonial État Civil, 1850–1900 45
11. 4. British Rule and Omani Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar 57
12. 5. Kenyan Muslims and the Political Imagination of Space on the Indian Ocean Rim 67
13. Part 3 COLONIALISM AND SLAVERY: THE UMMA BELOW THE WINDS
14. Introduction 83
15. 6. Sovereignty, Slavery, and Diplomacy in Mid- Eighteenth-Century Sulu 85
16. 7. The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean: Deportation, Slavery, and Empire in Anjouan 95
17. Part 4 RELIGION, POLITICS, RACE, AND IDENTITY
18. Introduction 109
19. 8. The Politics of Identity and Religion: Izmir in 1797 113
20. 9. Religious Routes to Racial Progress in West Africa: Edward Blyden, Islam, and the Gold Coast Press 124
21. 10. The Lhasa Uprisings of 1959 and 2008: Muslims in a Buddhist Land 136
22. 11. Muslims and Politics in the Southern Philippines: The 2017 War of Marawi 146
23. Part 5 WALLS, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE OTHER
24. Introduction 157
25. 12. Walls, Wonder, and the Edges of the Muslim World 159
26. 13. Alevi Cemevis and “Mosque Culture” in Turkey 175
27. Part 6 REPRESENTING MUSLIMS: POETRY, FILM, AND NEWS MEDIA
28. Introduction 189
29. 14. Visual Depictions of Muslim Heroines: Byron’s Beauties and American Houris 191
30. 15. A Russian Columbus: From Victorian England to Bombay Cinema 200
31. 16. Media Coverage of Islam in Contemporary Germany and the United States 212
32. Part 7 MUSIC, ART, AND THE NATION
33. Introduction 223
34. 17. Muslim Devotional Singing in Two Bengals: A Bold Experiment 225
35. 18. Reflections on Art and Nation Building: The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar 238
36. Part 8 TRANSLATION, MODERNIZATION, AND CULTURE
37. Introduction 253
38. 19. Ottoman Modernization and the Translation Bureau 255
39. 20. Reading Cultural Translation in Two “New Arrival” Arab American Novels 263
40. Part 9 REMEMBERING—AND FORGETTING—THE DEAD
41. Introduction 273
42. 21. Transliminal Comparisons in the Tombstone Inscriptions of Muslim and Christian Rulers in the Maghrib and Iberia 275
43. 22. The Tomb of al-Shadhili in Mocha, Yemen: Construction, Reconstruction, and Destruction 295
44. Acknowledgments 307
45. List of Contributors 309
46. Index 313