David Motadel - Islam and the European Empires

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The idea for this book emerged during my time as a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and I am grateful to the Fellows of the College for providing me with an extraordinary intellectual environment in which to complete it. I am much indebted to Sir C. A. Bayly, Houchang E. Chehabi, Sir Richard J. Evans, and Rachel G. Hoffman for their invaluable comments on the introduction, and their helpful advice on the overall concept of the volume. Many thanks in particular go to James L. W. Roslington for his assistance during the final phase of the editorial process. I am also grateful to the anonymous readers, both at Oxford University Press and at Past & Present, for their insightful suggestions, which helped greatly to improve the book. It is, moreover, a pleasure to acknowledge the encouragement, advice, and guidance from the editorial board of Past & Present, especially Matthew Hilton and Alexandra Walsham, who from the outset gave the book their full support; from Cathryn Steele, Christopher Wheeler, and Fiona Barry of Oxford University Press, who ensured its smooth production; and from the team of the Wylie Agency, who oversaw the process. Finally, and most importantly, I wish to thank all the contributors for providing the fascinating essays that brought this book to life.

David Motadel

Robert D. Crews

John Slight

Eric Tagliacozzo

Julia Clancy-Smith

Felicitas Becker

Umar Ryad

Benjamin D. Hopkins

Knut S. Vikr

Michael A. Reynolds

Gerrit Knaap

Rebekka Habermas

Faisal Devji

George R. Trumbull IV

Cemil Aydin

Cemil Aydin is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought (Columbia University Press, 2007).

Felicitas Becker is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 18902000 (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Julia Clancy-Smith is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She is author of Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 18001904) (University of California Press, 1994), Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration (University of California Press, 2011), and co-author of The Modern Middle East and North Africa (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Robert D. Crews is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. He is author of For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Harvard University Press, 2006).

Faisal Devji is a Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford. He is author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (Columbia University Press, 2009), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (Harvard University Press, 2012), and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Harvard University Press, 2013).

Rebekka Habermas is Professor of History at the University of Gttingen. She is author of Frauen und Mnner des Brgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte (17501850) (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2000), and co-editor of Mission Global: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte seit dem 19. Jahrhundert (Bhlau, 2014).

Benjamin D. Hopkins is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University. He is author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and co-author of Fragments of the Afghan Frontier (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Gerrit Knaap is Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague, and Professor of History at Utrecht University. He is author of Shallow Waters, Rising Tide: Shipping and Trade in Java Around 1775 (Kitlv Press, 1996), and Cephas, Yogyakarta: Photography in the Service of the Sultan (Kitlv Press, 1999).

David Motadel is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is author of Islam and Nazi Germanys War (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Michael A. Reynolds is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is author of Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 19081918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Umar Ryad is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Utrecht University. He is author of Islamic Reformism and Christianity: A Critical Reading of the Works of Muhammad Rashid Rida and his Associates (18981935) (Brill, 2009).

John Slight is a Research Fellow in History at St Johns College, University of Cambridge. He is currently working on a book entitled The British Empire and the Hajj, 18651956 (Harvard University Press).

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 18651915