Description
The webs, nodes and networks created by Britain's Indian Ocean Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are here explored in the context of their personal and social impact. Using the British Settlement of Aden as its focus, the book examines the development of a local community within the spaces created by imperial rule. It explores how individuals from widely disparate backgrounds brought together by the networks of empire created a cohesive community utilizing the one commonality at their disposal: their faith. Specifically, it examines how religious institutions and spiritual ideas served as parameters for the creation of community and the kinds of symbolic and cultural capital an individual needed to attain communal membership and influence within the confines of imperial rule.
Author: Scott S. Reese
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/13/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781474452762
ISBN10: 1474452760
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | History
- History | Modern | 19th Century
- Political Science | Imperialism
About the Author
Scott S. Reese is Professor of Islamic History at Northern Arizona University and author of Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir (Brill, 2008) and The Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa (Brill, 2004).