Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit (Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos)

Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed tosocieties across the ages

In Islamicate 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. The Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit isa boundary busting challenge to those who think of the world merely in terms of an "Arab" Middle East.

Readers will also benefit from:

• A thorough introduction tothe Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit across time and space
• An exploration ofpremodern Afro-Eurasia and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean
• A practical discussion ofthe future of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

Perfect forall students of Islamicate civilization, both traditional and progressive, Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit will also earn a place in the libraries ofgeneral readers of world historyand those grounded in the larger history of Islamicate Asia will find a perspective that centers their own contribution to the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit.