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028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0138 _d: 14/08/2024
082			_a909.097 AYD
100			_aAydin, Cemil.
245			_aThe Idea of the Muslim World _b: A Global Intellectual History. _c/ Cemil Aydin.
260			_aCambridge _b: Harvard University Press _c, 2017.
300			_a293p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1015
520			_a“Superb… A tour de force.” ―Ebrahim Moosa “Provocative… Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends.” ―Washington Post When President Obama visited Cairo to address Muslims worldwide, he followed in the footsteps of countless politicians who have taken the existence of a unified global Muslim community for granted. But as Cemil Aydin explains in this provocative history, it is a misconception to think that the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims constitute a single entity. How did this belief arise, and why is it so widespread? The Idea of the Muslim World considers its origins and reveals the consequences of its enduring allure. “Much of today’s media commentary traces current trouble in the Middle East back to the emergence of ‘artificial’ nation states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire… According to this narrative…today’s unrest is simply a belated product of that mistake. The Idea of the Muslim World is a bracing rebuke to such simplistic conclusions.” ―Times Literary Supplement “It is here that Aydin’s book proves so valuable: by revealing how the racial, civilizational, and political biases that emerged in the nineteenth century shape contemporary visions of the Muslim world.”
650			_aIntellectual History
650			_aHistory
650			_aMuslim World
700			_aCemil Aydin
942			_cBOOK
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