Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

Year 2017, Volume: 22 Issue: 43, 0 - 0, 01.12.2017

Yakoop Ahmed

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.357715

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

Islamic History, Islamic World, Contemporary Islamic Thought

References

• Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017.