Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean (Society and History in the Indian Ocean) - Softcover

This volume compares and contrasts anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the vexed nature of 'cosmopolitanism'. The chapters contribute to current debates on the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslim societies, and the study of colonial and post-colonial contexts. There are few books on the market that combine serious interdisciplinary scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise with comparable ambition.

Edward Simpson is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College and an ESRC Research Fellow.

Kai Kresse is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.