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Book SynopsisDiscover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed tosocieties across the ages InIslamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, deliversa spiritual elan filtered through cultural practices and artefacts. Neither juridical nor creedal, the bookexpresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and fascinating theory, that Islamicate cosmopolitanism marks a new turn in global history. An unceasing, self-critical pursuit of truth, hitched to both beauty and justice, its history is marked by male elites who were scientific exemplars in the pre-modern period. In the modern period, these exemplars include women as well as men, artists as well as scientists.The Islamicate Cosmopolitans have had special impact across the Afro-Eurasian ecumeneat the heart of civilized exchange between multiple groups with competing yet convergent interests. TheIslamicate Cosmopolitan Spiritisa boundary busting challenge t
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Preamble xii
Overview: A Manifesto in Three Words and Six Chapters xv
1 Tracing Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit Across Time and Space 1
2 Eastward Into India 8
3 Westward Into Spain 22
4 Premodern Afro-Eurasia 46
5 Persianate Culture Across the Indian Ocean 66
6 Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit Beyond 2020 92
Conclusion 121
Bibliography 125
Index 142
