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Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism compares the politics of six Muslim separatist movements, locating shared language and print culture as a central factor in Muslim ethnonational identity.
Trade Review"An entirely original and important contribution to the study of nationalism, this book brings together a broad range of ideas about ethnicity, language, and religion and deftly weaves together an elegant theory that not only explains why some Muslim societies choose to turn toward or away from fundamentalism but what to do about it." * John A. Hall, James McGill Professor in Sociology, McGill University *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Muslim Nations
Chapter 3. National Tongues
Chapter 4. Modern Standard Arabs
Chapter 5. Tongue Ties: The Kurds of Iraq
Chapter 6. Natives of the "New Frontier": The Uyghurs of Xinjiang
Chapter 7. Print Culture and Protest: The Sindhis of Pakistan
Chapter 8. Speaking to the Nation: The Kashmiris of India
Chapter 9. From Nationalism to Islamism? The Acehnese of Indonesia
Chapter 10. Religious Community Versus Ethnic Diversity: The Moros of the Philippines
Chapter 11. Nationalism, Language, and Islam
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
