Seema Alavi is Professor of History at the University of Delhi.
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire is an exhilarating book
encompassing broad swaths of trans-imperial history,
religio-cultural geography and a stunning breadth of vision… In the
current times, when Muslims, for a variety of reasons, have become
victims of insularity and ghettoization, Alavi’s book is a potent
antidote to the widespread but ill-informed media narrative about
Muslim resistance to forces of modernity and globalization.
*The Wire (India)*
An impressively well-researched and theoretically rich book that
illuminates the transformation of Muslim transnationalism and
cosmopolitanism during the long 19th century.
*Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
An important book about Muslims and modernity by an outstanding
historian of South Asia.
*Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University*
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire is an engrossing,
wide-ranging and beautifully written account of an emerging Muslim
political imagination in the 19th century. Through an examination
of five extraordinary figures, Sayyid Fadl, Rahmat Allâh Kairanawi,
Haji Imdadullah Maki, Nawab Siddiq Hasan Khan and Maulana Thanseri,
Seema Alavi brings alive the variegated, improvisatory and
inventive character of Muslim politics and theology, as it
struggled to come to terms with new imperial forms. Each of these
figures is deeply fascinating in their own right, chosen in part
for the extraordinary geographical range of their influence…If you
want to understand the contradictory nature of the engagement of
modern empires with Islam, this book provides a fascinating
historical guide.
*Indian Express*
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