Terrains of exchange : religious economies of global Islam / Nile Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Nile, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Non-Islamic countries--History--19th century.

Muslims.

Muslims--Non-Islamic countries--History--19th century--Sources.

Islam--Economic aspects.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, Hindu nationalists and Japanese imperialists, this book brings to life the local sites of globalisation that transformed Muslim religiosity through the long nineteenth century. Nile Green evokes terrains of exchange that range from the Russian empire's borderlands to the Indian princely states and the car factories of Detroit. He casts a microhistorian's eye on the religious productions that spilled from these many sites of contact. Whether looking at imperial evangelicals and Iranian language-workers, or Indian Muslims a

Contents:

Introduction: Terrains of exchange

Evangelicals: missionary catalysts, Muslim responses. Parnassus of the Envangelical empire ; The Christian origins of Muslim printing ; The Islamic opportunities of Bible translation

Innovators: communal competitors, local cosmopolitans. Missionaries, mystics and mill-owners ; The Intention of a Hindu Sufism

Exporters: pious passengers, Islamic impresarios. Making Islam in the motor city ; Founding the first mosque in Japan

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-367) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-024743-6

0-19-025728-8