• ISBN13: 9781474435109
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Edinburgh UP
• Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
• Publication Date: December 16, 2020
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: GBP 28.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 420 grams

About the Book Featuring new historical and ethnographic research on China and Southeast Asia, this book explores how power and violence have shaped the experiences of Sufis and state-builders, as well as refugees and rebels, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of Islamic cosmopolitanism. About the Author Joshua Gedacht</b> is Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic World History at Rowan University in New Jersey.<br> R. Michael Feener</b> is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Islamic Centre Lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Shari'a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia (2013) and Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia (2007).<br> Joshua Gedacht</b> is Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic World history at Rowan University in New Jersey. Dr. Gedacht received his B.A. in History and Political Science from McGill University in Canada and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<br> R. Michael Feener</b> is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Islamic Centre Lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Research Leader of the Religion and Globalisation Cluster at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. He has published extensively in the fields of Islamic studies and Southeast Asian history, as well as on post-disaster reconstruction, religion and development.