Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

Authors : Yakoop Ahmed

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Doi:10.20519/divan.357715

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Publication Date : 2017-12-01

Article Type : Book Review

Abstract :It is within this climate that Cemil Aydın has recently had his book published for a general audience titled The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History . I’m sure that the book will interest Islamicists, Ottomanists and general readers. In this book, through six carefully written and researched chapters, Aydın attempts to trace the genealogy of the above-mentioned sentiments back to the late eighteenth century where he argues that the notion of a Muslim world emerged when the colonial European powers exercised much political and intellectual influence that in turn fashioned a reactionary intellectual response by Muslim thinkers for a call for Muslim unity.
Keywords : Islamic History, Islamic World, Contemporary Islamic Thought