2015/01/01 by Nile Green · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Health, Medicine and Society #Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity #Islamic Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190222536.001.0001
openalex publication_date 2015/02/05 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Abstract 'This book offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a proselytizing global brand. Drawing Indian, Arab, Iranian and Tatar Muslims together with Scottish missionaries and African-American converts, the book brings to life the local sites of globalization where Islam was repeatedly reinvented. Evoking terrains of exchange from Russia ’s imperial borderlands to the car factories of Detroit and the ports of Japan, it casts a microhistorian’s eye on the innovative new Islams that emerged from these sites of contact. Using a multilingual range of materials, the book challenges the idea that globalization has given rise to a unified “global Islam.” Instead, it reveals the forces behind the fracturing of Islam in the hands of feuding and fissiparous “religious firms”. This book not only presents global history as Islamic history; it reveals the forces in that history that remain at work in the world today.