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SUMMARY:Muslim Community in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire
DESCRIPTION:Buffett Lecture » “A Leading Muslim of Aden”: Personal Trajectories\, Imperial Networks and the Construction of Community in Britain’s Indian Ocean EmpireScott Reese\, Northern Arizona University\, is a historian of Islam in Africa and the western Indian Ocean.Reese’s current research focuses on the British Settlement of Aden\, located in present-day Yemen. He explores how Muslims from across Britain’s empire used the commonality of their faith to fashion a new community within the spaces created by imperial rule. In addition to insights into the day-to-day lives of Muslims\, Reese shows the dynamic nature of interactions across what are often treated as impermeable boundaries dividing the Middle East\, Africa\, and South Asia. Connections between Muslims across these regions pre-date European colonialism\, of course\, but the webs and infrastructure created by empire intensified the movement of people and ideas. Networks built in the nineteenth century evolved into a more horizontally integrated and intellectually engaged global community of Muslims by the twentieth century. 
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