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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Imperialism

[Book Review] Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, 2017)

By Chandler Barton  //  December 2, 2017December 2, 2017

Cemil Aydin,  The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017). 304 pages, $29.95,  ISBN: 9780674050372. Reviewed by Chandler Barton. Although Cemil Aydin’s The Idea of the Muslim World is as…

[Book Review] Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt – Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 & Johan Mathew, Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea

By Sebastian Bernburg  //  December 1, 2017

[Book Review] Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt – Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). 288 pages; ISBN:9781107155657 & Johan Mathew, Margins of the Market: Trafficking…

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