Book contents
- The World Imagined
- LSE International Studies
- The World Imagined
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Beyond the Westphalian Gaze
- Part II The East Asian Sino-centric Order
- Part III The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
- 6 Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction
- 7 Collective Imagination and the Conduct of Interpolity Relations
- Part IV Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires and the Islamic Ecumene
from Part III - The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2020
- The World Imagined
- LSE International Studies
- The World Imagined
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Beyond the Westphalian Gaze
- Part II The East Asian Sino-centric Order
- Part III The Islamic Cultural–Historical Community
- 6 Lords of the Auspicious Conjunction
- 7 Collective Imagination and the Conduct of Interpolity Relations
- Part IV Collective Imagination among the Polities of Southeast Asia
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the Islamic Ecumene shared religious principles intertwined with other foundational beliefs, which harkened back to the Turkic-Mongol tradition of the Islamic empires, providing cultural unity. The Islamic World constituted an international society despite the absence of a clear hegemonic power. Institutions, laws, and collective beliefs embodied in everyday practices, rituals, and even the design of buildings and cities provided unity in a heterogeneous and diverse Islamic ecumene.
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- The World ImaginedCollective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies, pp. 167 - 213Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020