Published in association with the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

Introduction : cosmopolitanisms in Muslim contexts / Derryl N. MacLean -- Freeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections in the Tanzanian countryside / Felicitas Becker -- Interrogating Cosmopolitanism in an Indian Ocean setting : thinking through Mombasa on the Swahili Coast / Kai Kresse -- Translators of empire : colonial cosmopolitanism, Ottoman bureaucrats and the struggle over the governance of Yemen, 1898-1914 / Thomas Kuehn -- Islampolis, Cosmopolis : Ottoman urbanity between myth, memory and postmodernity / Ariel Salzmann -- Cosmopolitan cursing in late-nineteenth century Alexandria / Will Hanley -- Kebabs and port wine : the culinary cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800-1835 / Nile Green -- Abdur Rahman Chughtai : cosmopolitan Mughal aesthetic in the age of print / Iftikhar Dadi -- Cosmopolitanism and authenticity : the doctrine of Tashabbuh Biʼl-Kuffar (Imitating the Infidel) in modern South Asian fatwas / Muhammad Khalid Masud -- About the contributors.