Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction

by Nile Green

Overview

This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then states - over the past 150 years.

Historian Nile Green surveys not only the familiar venues of Islam in the Middle East and the West, but also Asia and Africa, explaining the doctrines of a wide variety of political and non-political versions of Islam across the spectrum from Salafism to Sufism. This Very Short Introduction will help readers to recognize and compare the various organizations competing to claim the authenticity and authority of representing the one true Islam.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190917234
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Series:	Very Short Introduction
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	533,090
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 4.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nile Green is Professor of History and Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A historian of the multiple globalizations of Islam and Muslims, his work has traced Muslim networks that connect South Asia and the Middle East with the Indian Ocean, Africa, Japan, Europe and the United States. His research builds on extensive travels in India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Chinese Central Asia, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Myanmar, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, and Zanzibar. A former Guggenheim fellow, Green is the author of Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and Sufism: A Global History, among many other titles.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations xvii

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

1 What is "global Islam"? 6

2 Islam in the age of empire, steam, and print 19

3 Defending Islam from the secular world order 46

4 From Islamic revolutions to the Internet 85

Conclusions 131

Glossary 141

References 143

Further reading 145

Index 149

Editorial Reviews

"This is a mustread for those interested in the processes of globalization and the resulting Islams." — MONICA M. RINGER, Amherst College, Technology and Culture, Volume 63, Number 1

"The book is impeccably written and edited." — Philipp Reisner, Reading Religion

"Nile Green's Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction is an accessible and engaging study of the globalization of Islam. Green tracks the fascinating redefinition and proliferation of multiple and competing versions of Islam. His outstanding book traces how new religious actors, transnational movements, organizations and governments have harnessed modern forms of travel, technology, print and electronic media to spread and implement their faith and message globally." — John L. Esposito, University Professor and Professor of Religion & International Affairs, Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and author of The Future of Islam

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