For God or Empire : Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World by Wilson Chacko Jacob (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Wilson Chacko Jacob recasts the genealogy of modern sovereignty through the encounter between Islam and empire-states in the Indian Ocean world. Fadl's travels in worlds seen and unseen made for a life that was both unsettled and unsettling.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-101503609634
ISBN-139781503609631
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038824510
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFor God or Empire : Sayyid Fadl and the Indian Ocean World
Publication Year2019
SubjectMiddle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, History & Theory, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Asia / India & South Asia, Islam / Sufi, World, Religion, Politics & State
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilson Chacko Jacob
Subject AreaReligion, Political Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-053007
ReviewsWilson Chacko Jacob joins the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds within a hitherto hidden global history to explore the making and movement of ideas. A forceful intellectual intervention in the way we understand sovereignty.
IllustratedYes
SynopsisSayyid Fadl, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, led a unique life--one that spanned much of the nineteenth century and connected India, Arabia, and the Ottoman Empire. For God or Empire tells his story, part biography and part global history, as his life and legacy afford a singular view on historical shifts of power and sovereignty, religion and politics. Wilson Chacko Jacob recasts the genealogy of modern sovereignty through the encounter between Islam and empire-states in the Indian Ocean world. Fadl's travels in worlds seen and unseen made for a life that was both unsettled and unsettling. And through his life at least two forms of sovereignty--God and empire--become apparent in intersecting global contexts of religion and modern state formation. While these changes are typically explained in terms of secularization of the state and the birth of rational modern man, the life and afterlives of Sayyid Fadl--which take us from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indian Ocean worlds to twenty-first century cyberspace--offer a more open-ended global history of sovereignty and a more capacious conception of life.