Scott S. Reese is Professor of Islamic History at Northern Arizona University
In Imperial Muslims, the author's ingenious use of British archival
sources and Arabic contemporary publications make 19th and early
20th century Aden come alive in front of the readers' eyes. His
assertion that at the turn of the century Britain ruled over forty
percent of the global Muslim population is enough to explain why
Aden is an important case study in providing a window into the
social and spiritual life of a Muslim community within the British
Empire.--THANOS PETOURIS "BYS newsletter"
A community that was the offspring of empire, the Muslims of Aden
gave voice to the competing religious currents at the confluence of
Africa and Asia. By depicting a 'multiverse' shaped by rival
cosmologies, legal pluralism, and the metaphysical unseen as well
as the visible flows of finance, Scott Reese succeeds splendidly in
revealing a microcosm of the Indian Ocean's heterogeneous umma.--
"Nile Green (UCLA), author of Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy
of the West Indian Ocean"
In Imperial Muslims we have a tremendously valuable and highly
readable contribution, one that has filled a serious gap in our
reading of modern Indian Ocean history, and that has also added
significant depth to our understanding of Muslim religious life
under colonial rule. This is a book that will find a wide
readership in Middle Eastern and Islamic history, colonial history,
and especially the history of the Indian Ocean. It is beautifully
written, deeply textured, and eminently accessible... Moreover, it
is organized in a way that allows for a classroom instructor to
assign individual chapters as well as the whole book.--Fahad Ahmad
Bishara, University of Virginia "Die Welt des Islams"
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