The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia : visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought /

The politics of anti-Westernism in Asia : visions of world order in pan-Islamic and pan-Asian thought / Cemil Aydin.

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In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency a...

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Main Author: Aydin, Cemil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Series:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Subjects:
Panislamism.
International cooperation.
Politics and government
Asia > Politics and government.
Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The universal West: Europe beyond its Christian and white race identity (1840-1882)
  • The great rupture: Ottoman imagination of a European model
  • Ottoman westernism and the European international society
  • A non-Christian Europe?
  • The West in early Japanese reformist thought
  • The modern genesis of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian ideas
  • Conclusion
  • The two faces of the West: imperialism versus enlightenment (1882-1905)
  • The Muslim world as an inferior Semitic race: Ernest Renan and his Muslim critics
  • Yellow versus white peril? pan-Asian critiques and conceptions of world order
  • Crescent versus cross? pan-Islamic reflections on the "clash of civilizations" thesis
  • Conclusion
  • The global moment of the Russo-Japanese war: the awakening of the East/equality with the West (1905-1912)
  • An alternative to the West? Asian observations on the Japanese model
  • Defining an anti-Western internationalism: pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of solidarity
  • Japanese pan-Asianism after the Russo-Japanese war
  • Conclusion
  • The impact of WWI on pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist visions of world order
  • Pan-Islamism and the Ottoman state
  • The realist pan-Islamism of Celal Nuri and İsmail Naci Pelister
  • Pan-Islamic mobilization during WWI
  • The transformation of pan-Asianism during WWI: Ôkawa Shûmei, Indian nationalists, and Asiaphile European romantics
  • Asia as a site of national liberation
  • Asia as the hope of humanity
  • Conclusion
  • The triumph of nationalism? the ebbing of pan-Islamic and pan-Asian visions of world order during the 1920s
  • The Wilsonian moment and pan-Islamism
  • The Wilsonian moment and pan-Asianism
  • Pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist perceptions of socialist internationalism
  • "Clash of civilizations" in the age of nationalism
  • The weakness of pan-Islamic and pan-Asianist political projects during the 1920s
  • Conclusion
  • The revival of a pan-Asianist vision of world order in Japan (1931-1945)
  • Explaining Japan's official "return to Asia"
  • Withdrawal from the League of Nations as a turning point
  • Asianist journals and organizations
  • Asianist ideology of the 1930s
  • Wartime Asian internationalism and its postwar legacy
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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