Cemil Aydın. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History

Abstract

It is within this climate that Cemil Aydin has recently had his book published for a general audience titled The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History . I’m sure that the book will interest Islamicists, Ottomanists and general readers. In this book, through six carefully written and researched chapters, Aydin attempts to trace the genealogy of the above-mentioned sentiments back to the late eighteenth century where he argues that the notion of a Muslim world emerged when the colonial European powers exercised much political and intellectual influence that in turn fashioned a reactionary intellectual response by Muslim thinkers for a call for Muslim unity.