cosmopolitanism

Articles

• Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past.
  26 November 2013, by siawi3

  This book examines the concept of “cosmopolitanism” in different Muslim societies in Africa and Asia: how people of different ethnicities lived together through the eighteenth and nineteenth and twentieth centuries was neither the “Babel-like cosmopolis portrayed by European visitors, nor the paternalistic ... ’tolerant’ Islampolis represented in the Turkish Republic’s textbooks”. In the broadest sense, the essays are about different actors’ individual and social engagement with cultures other than their own and their willingness and ability in specific historical contexts to transcend particularistic identities.
  This should shed a light on the Islamism vs Islamophobia present debate, “reflecting on the spontaneous outpouring of grief by Turkish Armenians (less than 60,000 today), and Turkish Muslims, Jews, and Christians marching together through Istanbul’s streets to mourn the civil rights leader and journalist Hrant Dink after he was murdered in 2007, and suggesting that Turkey’s multiethnic history continues to inspire citizens to come together in its defense despite all odds.”

• Yom Kippur and Ashoura: Are Muslims observing a Jewish holiday?
  29 September 2018, by siawi3

  The Judeo-Islamic tradition has deep historical roots that Zionism and Islamism have tried to erase. Retrieving a lost cosmopolitan culture.

• Pakistan: The Inner Sea - Dreams of a Muslim Cosmopolis
  23 May 2018, by siawi3

  Despite being a country of more than 200 million people, marked by a diversity of income, resources, and talents, Pakistan today is often reduced in popular media as “the most dangerous country in the world”. With that descriptor comes further qualifications which stress that it marked by a “triple threat of terrorism, a failing economy, and the fastest growing nuclear arsenal”.

• Cosmopolitan Africans, before colonialism
  20 July 2022, by siawi3

  Africa’s engagement with the world before European colonialism holds unexpected episodes of un-colonial power relations.

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  21 février 2020, par siawi3