Challenging cosmopolitanism : coercion, mobility and displacement in Islamic Asia / edited by Joshua Gedacht and R. Michael Feener.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hijra, Ḥajj and Muslim mobilities: considering coercion and asymmetrical power dynamics in histories of Islamic cosmopolitanism / R. Michael Feener and Joshua Gedacht -- Islamicate cosmopolitanism from North Africa to Southeast Asia / Bruce B. Lawrence -- Sufi cosmopolitanism in the seventheenth-century Indian Ocean: Sharīʻa, lineage and royal power in Southeast Asia and the Maldives / A.C.S. Peacock -- The white heron called by the muezzin: shrines, sufis, and warlords in early modern Java / Simon C. Kemper -- Variations of 'Islamic military cosmopolitanism': the survival strategies of Hui Muslims during the modern period / Tatsuya Nakanishi -- Writing cosmopolitan history in nineteenth-century China: Li Huanyi's Words and deeds of Islamic exemplars / J. Lilu Chen -- The "Shaykh al-Islām of the Philippines" and coercive cosmopolitanism in an age of global empire / Joshua Gedacht -- Bordering Malaya's 'benighted lands': frontiers of race and colonialism on the Malay Penninsula, 1887-1902 / Amrita Malhi -- Afghanistan's cosmopolitan trading networks: a view from Yiwu, China / Magnus Marsden and Diana Ibañez-Tirado.

Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations of mobility and trans-regional consciousness, however, tend to conflate border-crossing with opportunity and social diversity with ethical progress. At the same time, they generally disregard the ways in which such forms of cosmopolitanism have been entwined with structures of domination, economic control and violence. This volume addresses these issues in ways that help to contextualize contemporary issues such as the global refugee crisis in relation to longer histories of Muslim mobility and coercion. 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.