Struggling with history : Islam and cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Michael Lambek -- Introduction: Cosmopolitanism Contested: Anthropology and History in the Western Indian Ocean / Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse -- 1. Islam in Indian Ocean Africa Prior to the Scramble / Gwyn Campbell -- 2. The History of Bhuj as Told by its Own Historians / Edward Simpson -- 3. Saints, Rebels and Booksellers: Sufis in the Cosmopolitan Western Indian Ocean, c. 1780-1920 / Nile Green -- 4. Cosmopolitanism Colonised? Three Cases from Zanzibar, 1890-1920 / Anne Bang -- 5. The 'Respectable Citizens' of Shaykh Uthman: Religious Discourse, Trans-locality and the Construction of Local Contexts in Colonial Aden / Scott Reese -- 6. The Uses of History: Rhetorics of Muslim Unity and Difference on the Kenyan Swahili Coast / Kai Kresse -- 7. Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Towns: Rural-Urban Relations in the History of the Southern Swahili Coast in the Twentieth Century / Felicitas Becker -- 8. Drumming and Praying: Sidi at the Interface of Spirit Possession and Islam / Helene Basu -- 9. 'I am Gulf': The Production of Cosmopolitanism in Kozhikode, Kerala, India / Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella -- Afterword / Michael Pearson.