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The Idea of the Muslim World

A Global Intellectual History

Cemil Aydin

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$20.00 • £17.95 • €18.95

ISBN 9780674238176

Publication Date: 04/15/2019

304 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Cemil Aydin is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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At Aeon, read Cemil Aydin’s argument that the very idea of a “Muslim World” is tribalistic—“a dangerous and modern myth”
Explore The Immanent Frame’s online symposium on The Idea of the Muslim World, featuring reactions to the book and its arguments from a range of scholarly perspectives and a response by Aydin
Read an interview with Aydin—in which he discusses pan-Asianism, pan-Islamism, and the “Muslim World” in history—at the website of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, which seeks to recognize social scientists for work that contributes significantly to the study of global history
Listen to conversations with Aydin on the New Books Network podcast and the Project on Middle East Political Science’s Middle East Politics podcast
Read an interview with Aydin about the book in Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News
Read an excerpt from the Introduction to The Idea of the Muslim World at the HUP Blog
Browse a selection of HUP works on Islam’s place in the world—past and present

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