Binding: Paperback
Description: Superb A tour de force. Ebrahim Moosa Provocative Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends. Washington Post When President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single entity. How did this belief arise and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World considers its origins and reveals the consequences of its enduring allure. Much of today's media commentary traces current trouble in the Middle East back to the emergence of artificial nation states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire According to this narrative today's unrest is simply a belated product of that mistake. The Idea of the Muslim World is a bracing rebuke to such simplistic conclusions. Times Literary Supplement It is here that Aydin's book proves so valuable: by revealing how the racial civilizational and political biases that emerged in the nineteenth century shape contemporary visions of the Muslim world. Foreign Affairs
Title: The Idea Of The Muslim World A Global Intellectual History
Author(s): Aydin Cemil
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Barcode: 9780674238176
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 4/15/2019
Category: Geopolitics