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The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Cemil Aydin
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Hardback. Challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QFM; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 620. Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. 320 pages. Challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QFM; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; JPS. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight: 622.
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism. Aydin compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War ... Read more
In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism. Aydin compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137782
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V9780231137782
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About Cemil Aydin
Cemil Aydin studied at Boiazici University, Istanbul University, and the University of Tokyo before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2002-2004) and is currently an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Reviews for The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia: Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
This volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined.
Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. ... Read more
Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. ... Read more