Unsettling colonial modernity in Islamicate contexts /:

By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited volume breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors probe 'colonial modernity' as a condition whose introduction into Islamicate contexts was facilitated hi...

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Other Authors: Saffari, Siavash (Editor), Akhbari, Roxana (Editor), Abdolmaleki, Kara (Editor), Hamdon, Evelyn Leslie, 1954- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2017]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited volume breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors probe 'colonial modernity' as a condition whose introduction into Islamicate contexts was facilitated historically by European encroachment into South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. They also analyze the various modes through which, in Europe itself, and in North America by extension, people from Islamicate contexts have been, and continue to be, otherized in the constitution and advancement of the.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443893749
1443893749

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