Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Movement, Identity, and Contemporary Reconfigurations

Leichtman, Mara A.; Schulz, Dorothea E.

doi:10.1111/j.1548-744x.2012.01064.x

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“…In a global representational framework, it is incumbent upon the citizens of Western countries to understand that the overwhelming support for “Historical Idealism” prevalent in their countries is not universal, and cannot be expected to be transplanted without growing pains to Muslim countries. Rather, we should anticipate a long trajectory of democratization in these countries rather than an unbroken chain of immediate successes, as localized and marginalized formations are very important even in the analysis of cosmopolitanism [ 50 ]. Because we only included four Muslim figures in the World History Survey, and because differences between university and non-university educated are likely to be important, there is much research to be done on representations of history in Muslim countries.…”

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“…In this region, aggregating across seven countries, there was both a high prevalence of “Secular Idealists” (but not “Religious Idealists”) and “Political Realists”, showing respect for Western icons of liberal economics and a respect for the top-down, authoritarian traditions that governed Asia prior to recent times in many places [ 11 ]. This prevalence mapping shows signs of a fully-engaged dialogue between Western traditions of historical interpretation, rooted in liberal ideals of free trade, private property, democracy, and human rights on the one hand, and Asian traditions, rooted in sovereign wealth, collectivist schemes of ownership, autocratic governance, and ethics of hierarchical relationalism on the other [ 49 ], [ 50 ]. The heterogeneity of these representations co-occurs with the construction of hybrid forms of governance from the family-based democratic oligarchies in the Philippines to “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” in China and the one-party democracies of Singapore (and late 20 th century Japan).…”

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“Heroes” and “Villains” of World History across Cultures

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Emergent properties of global political culture were examined using data from the World History Survey (WHS) involving 6,902 university students in 37 countries evaluating 40 figures from world history. Multidimensional scaling and factor analysis techniques found only limited forms of universality in evaluations across Western, Catholic/Orthodox, Muslim, and Asian country clusters. The highest consensus across cultures involved scientific innovators, with Einstein having the most positive evaluation overall. Peaceful humanitarians like Mother Theresa and Gandhi followed. There was much less cross-cultural consistency in the evaluation of negative figures, led by Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and Saddam Hussein. After more traditional empirical methods (e.g., factor analysis) failed to identify meaningful cross-cultural patterns, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used to identify four global representational profiles: Secular and Religious Idealists were overwhelmingly prevalent in Christian countries, and Political Realists were common in Muslim and Asian countries. We discuss possible consequences and interpretations of these different representational profiles.

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“…My analysis of the dress practices by which female Muslim students articulate a specific religious subjectivity draws inspiration from recent studies that have addressed the personal and intersubjective meanings of religious practices that allow individuals to make themselves into ethical subjects (e.g., Mahmood 2005;Deeb 2006;Hirschkind 2006;Schulz 2012).…”

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(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda

Schulz¹

2013

J Religion Afr

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Tbe article takes the role of school education in tbe historical marginalization of Muslims in Uganda to argue that recent transformations in the educational field have created new opportunities for Muslims to become professionally successful and to articulate a self-assertive identity as minority Muslims. In a second step the articles points to the particular significance that tbe recent shift in Muslims' educational opportunities bears for Muslim girls and women. It argues tbat tbe structural transformations in tbe field of education since tbe late 1980s bad paradoxical implications for female Muslims and for tbe situation of Muslims in Uganda more generally. Tbe diversification of tbe field of primary, secondary, and bigber education since tbe mid-iggos facilitated career options tbat bad been unavailable to tbe majority of Muslims.Access to an education-based status is now possible for a wider segment of tbe Muslim population of Uganda. Yet in spite oflong-standing efforts by representational bodies sucb as UMEA, educational reforms bave not put an end to significant socioeconomic and regional differences among Muslims. Tbere are still notable inequalities in access to bigb-quality education tbat bave existed bistorlcally between Muslims from different regions of Uganda. Tbese unequal scbooling opportunities delimit tbe pool of tbose Muslims wbo may access institutions of bigber education and bence articulate a new, education-based middle-class identity.

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“…This debate gave rise to another framework for studying the region's cities: the “cosmopolitan” city (e.g. Eldem et al ; Bora ; Leichtman and Schulz ; Barkan and Barkey ). Although the interest in studying the “cosmopolitan” city may have been sparked by “exceptional” anxieties specific to Muslim societies, this scholarship developed to astutely question the politics behind valorizing “cosmopolitanism” in the region (e.g.…”

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Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

El-Kazaz

Mazur

2017

City & Society

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This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on geographical places and time periods that have remained peripheral to the study of Middle Eastern cities, the three articles ethnographically historicize the planned and unplanned processes through which cities in the region transform to transcend a genealogy of exceptionalism and the constraints it has created. They highlight the global and local connections that shape these processes to offer new perspectives on the study of scale, verticality and sensoriums in the shaping of urban transformation around the globe. The section developed from a conference on Middle Eastern cities convened at Princeton University in May 2013.

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Introduction to Special Issue: Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Movement, Identity, and Contemporary Reconfigurations

Cited by 20 publications

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“Heroes” and “Villains” of World History across Cultures

“Heroes” and “Villains” of World History across Cultures

(En)gendering Muslim Self-Assertiveness: Muslim Schooling and Female Elite Formation in Uganda

Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

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