David Motadel: Introduction
I. Islam and Imperial Rule
1: Robert D. Crews: The Russian Worlds of Islam
2: John Slight: British Imperial Rule and the Hajj
3: Eric Tagliacozzo: The Dutch Empire and the Hajj
4: Julia Clancy-Smith: Islam and the French Empire in North
Africa
5: Felicitas Becker: Islam and Imperialism in East Africa
II. Islam and Anti-Colonial Resistance
6: Umar Ryad: Anti-Imperialism and the Pan-Islamic Movement
7: Benjamin D. Hopkins: Islam and Resistance in the British
Empire
8: Knut S. Vikør: Religious Revolts in Colonial North Africa
9: Michael A. Reynolds: Mobilisation of Muslims in the Caucasus
10: Gerrit Knaap: Islamic Resistance in the Dutch Colonial
Empire
III. Islam and Colonial Knowledge
11: Rebekka Habermas: Debates on Islam in Imperial Germany
12: Faisal Devji: Islam in British Imperial Thought
13: George R. Trumbull IV: French Colonial Knowledge of
Maraboutism
14: Cemil Aydin: Islam and the European Empires in Japanese
Imperial Thought
David Motadel is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. A graduate of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar, he has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Yale and Oxford.
A monumental, comprehensive, and lucid contribution to scholarship,
providing the first comparative account of the engagement of the
European empires with Islam. Toward the end of the nineteenth
century, the question of how best to govern the religious affairs
of Muslims became a central concern of all imperial powers. Despite
the differences among regions and empires, the European encounters
with Islam in imperial contexts were in many ways similar. This
detailed yet clear account is a masterly survey of the entire sweep
of the European empires and Islam -- a towering landmark in the
subject.
*Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin*
Encompassing five modern empires, and showing the multivalence of
imperial debates on Islam no less than Muslim debates on empire,
this much needed volume fills a long-empty place on the historian's
bookshelf. Together the chapters reveal Europe's empires as a nexus
of administrative, military, and epistemic forces in dynamic
interplay with Muslims in the concrete and Islam in the
abstract,
*Nile Green, UCLA*
David Motadel's volume brings together leading international
scholars of Islam and empire in what is a fascinating addition to
the growing literature on comparative world history.
*C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge*
For a field in which Islam and colonialism have long been treated
as diametrically opposed and intimately engaged, it is surprising
that so few volumes have explicitly sought to tackle this
antagonistic embrace in a global sense. David Motadel ... goes so
far as to suggest ... that such 'comparative studies are missing',
and I must admit that I scratched my head to think of an effective
counter example. His exhaustively referenced introductory essay
shows that this was hardly done on a whim. Moreover, unlike too
many edited volumes, this has drawn on an impressive range of
global expertise to speak to the histories of conquest,
accommodation, suppression and even encouragement from the shores
of the Mediterranean to the Java Sea.
*Michael Laffan, Journal of Islamic Studies*
One of the great merits of this indispensable volume is to remind
the reader that several different European states engaged with
different parts of the Islamic world and did so in a number of
parallel spheres. The editor, David Motadel, who has recently
published a major monograph on Nazi Germany and the Islamic world,
sets out the issues in a thoughtful introduction ... The range,
subtlety and illustrative detail that these chapters offer, and the
authority of their authors, will make this volume an invaluable
companion to courses on empire and Islam alike.
*John Darwin, English Historical Review*
This is a fascinating ... collection of essays ... I am sure that
it will long serve as a point of reference for comparative imperial
history. Most of the chapters are a joy to read and evidently
represent the very best in modern scholarship.
*Journal of Modern History*
[A] highly welcome contribution to putting things into perspective
and gaining a more nuanced and differentiated view of West-Eastern
history ... Islam and the European Empires is an impressive
achievement due to its wide geographic range and the depth of
research in the majority of its articles.
*Rainer Brunner, Die Welt des Islams*
The scholarship is, by and large, of high-quality, full of insight
and thought-provoking. It is highly recommended as a worthwhile
read for anyone with an interest in this area.
*R. charles Weller, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations*
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