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Intellectual exchanges in Muslim Asia: intersections of history and geography
This chapter documents and theorises the character of intellectual exchange in Muslim Asia. It does so by exploring intellectual exchanges involving Muslims living in a particular transregional arena that cuts across the nation states of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The chapter argues that intellectual exchange in this arena takes place in a context defined by it being an intersecting point between intersecting geographical and temporal process and scales. In this specific context, a consideration of Muslim thought, activity and identity in the arena illuminates a broad range of factors that shape the character and direction of intellectual exchange. If a great deal of work in both anthropology and history has focussed on the role played by specific knowledge ecumenes and ethical traditions in shaping Islamic thought and subjectivity, a consideration of life in the transregional arena across which I have worked illuminates the significance of geopolitical processes in directing intellectual exchange in a diverse Muslim society.
Funding
Aferlives of Muslim Asia; AHRC
Trust, Global Traders and Cheap Commodities in a Chinese International City (TRODITIES); G1723; EUROPEAN UNION; 669132
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Publisher
BerghahnPublisher URL
External DOI
Book title
Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange: Interactions, Transactions, and Ethics in Asia and BeyondPlace of publication
New YorkISBN
9781805390701Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Sussex Asia Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes