Title
Civilizationism in Asia as Worldmaking and World Breaking: The History of Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Afro-Asian Thought
Abstract
Professor of international/global history Cemil Aydin delivered a talk on East Asian visions of Islam and modernity.
This event was sponsored by CEAS and the Department of History.
Biography
Prof. Aydin studied at Boğaziçi University, İstanbul University, and the University of Tokyo before receiving his Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in 2002. His publications include Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia (Columbia University Press, 2007) and The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, Spring 2017).