Authors

Cemil Aydin

Cemil Aydin (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2002)  is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His recent research deals with global intellectual history and international history of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian thought. Cemil Aydin’s publications include his book on the Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2007),  “Regionen und Reiche in der Politischen Geschichte des Langen 19 Jahrhunderts, 1750-1924 (Region and Empire in the Political History of the Long 19th Century” in Geschichte Der Welt, 1750-1870: Wege Zur Modernen Welt (A History of the World, 1750-1870)“ (Beck Publishers/Harvard, July 2016) pp: 35-253, and The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, Spring 2017).

ARTICLES BY Cemil Aydin

  • What is the Muslim World?

    What is the Muslim World?

    On 17 May 1919 in Paris, three Indian Muslim leaders met the United States’ president, Woodrow Wilson, to make a case for the preservation of the Ottoman caliphate in Istanbul, and for the national self-determination of Anatolia as a homeland for Turkish Muslims. The ..

  • Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World (New Texts Out Now)

    Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World (New Texts Out Now)

    The book deals with the intellectual genealogy and politics of the notion that all Muslims in the world share civilizational and geopolitical unity. I was surprised how anti-Muslim hostility relies on a notion of global Muslim unity threatening Western hegemony. This is different from anti..