Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History
Abstract
It is within this climate
that Cemil Aydın has recently had his book published for a general audience titled
The Idea of the Muslim
World: A Global Intellectual History.
I’m sure that the book will interest Islamicists, Ottomanists and general
readers. In this book, through six carefully written and researched chapters,
Aydın attempts to trace the genealogy of the above-mentioned sentiments back to
the late eighteenth century where he argues that the notion of a Muslim world
emerged when the colonial European powers exercised much political and
intellectual influence that in turn fashioned a reactionary intellectual response
by Muslim thinkers for a call for Muslim unity.
Keywords
References
- Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.
Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Book Review
Authors
Yakoop Ahmed
This is me
Publication Date
December 1, 2017
Submission Date
November 6, 2017
Acceptance Date
October 12, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 22 Number: 43