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The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

Aydin, Cemil

Paperback

IslamGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0674238176
ISBN13: 9780674238176
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Apr 15 2019
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Superb... A tour de force.
--Ebrahim Moosa

Provocative... Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.
--Washington Post

When President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world's 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World considers its origins and reveals the consequences of its enduring allure.

Much of today's media commentary traces current trouble in the Middle East back to the emergence of 'artificial' nation states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire... According to this narrative...today's unrest is simply a belated product of that mistake. The Idea of the Muslim World is a bracing rebuke to such simplistic conclusions.

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