Becoming Arab: Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world

Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and contr...

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Главный автор: Mandal, Sumit Kumar (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018.
В:Год: 2018
Серии журналов/журналы:Asian connections
Другие ключевые слова:B Ислам (мотив) Southeast Asia History, 19th century
B Muslims (Southeast Asia) History 19th century
B Minorities ; Southeast Asia ; History ; 19th century
B Muslims Southeast Asia History, 19th century
B Ислам (мотив) (Southeast Asia) History 19th century
B Muslims ; Southeast Asia ; History ; 19th century
B Islam ; Southeast Asia ; History ; 19th century
B Minorities Southeast Asia History, 19th century
B Minorities (Southeast Asia) History 19th century
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781107196797
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Итог:Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by economic and political function. The racialisation constrained but did not eliminate the fluid character of Arabness. Creole Arabs responded to the constraints by initiating transregional links with the Ottoman Empire and establishing modern social organisations, schools, and a press. Contentions emerged between organisations respectively based on Prophetic descent and egalitarianism, advancing empowering but conflicting representations of a modern Arab and Islamic identity. Mandal unsettles finite understandings of race and identity by demonstrating not only the incremental development of a modern identity, but the contested state of its birth.
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ISBN:1108164935
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108164931