Imperial Muslims

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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 * 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 * Imperial Muslims is an important contribution to the growing literature on the formation of Muslim identities under colonial rule. In absorbing detail, Reese vividly creates a portrait of the complex intersections of religion, ethnicity, and trade in British-ruled Aden, in a rich study that will be highly appreciated in the fields of history and religious studies. * Carl W. Ernst, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * 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 * A complex and compelling...Reese's insightful exposition has the possibility of stimulating new discussions of issues of concern to those of us working on configurations of Muslim community and modernizing transformations much further afield. -- R. Michael Feener, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies * Journal of Islamic Studies * 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 *