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  • Writing Travel in Central Asian History

    Edited by Nile Green ...
    For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Asia Found Herself

    A Story of Intercultural Understanding

    by Nile Green ...
    A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continentThe nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across Asia to bring Bibles to the colonized. The unintended consequence was an Asian communications revolution: ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Global Islam

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan

    The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah

    by Nile Green ...
    A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East.In the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed their assumed identities into careers full of drama and celebrity, writing dozens of books ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Making Space

    Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India

    by Nile Green ...
    How could settlement emerge in an early modern 'world on the move'? How did the Sufis imprint their influence on the cultural memory of their communities? Weaving together investigations of architecture, ethnography, local history, and migration, Making Space offers bold new insights into Indian, Islamic, and comparative early modern history. Nile Green explores the tensions between mobility and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Serendipitous Translations

    A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean

    Edited by Nile Green ...
    Series series Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South
    The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources on Sri Lanka’s links with the Islamic world ever assembled in English.Sri Lanka is an underappreciated focal point of global history. Known to Persian and Arab traders as Serendib, the island has long been a site of intensive cultural and material exchange, as well as a holy place—Islamic tradition holds that the biblical Adam arrived there after ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print

    Edited by James L. Gelvin, Nile Green ...
    The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history.In ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Writing Travel in Central Asian History

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ron Sela, Laura Hostetler, Abbas Amanat, Arash Khazeni, Kate Teltscher, Imre Galambos, Ronald Vroon, Tanya H. Merchant ...
    For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Terrains of Exchange

    Religious Economies of Global Islam

    by Nile Green ...
    Terrains of Exchange 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 proselytising global brand. Drawing Indian, Arab, Iranian and Tatar Muslims together with Scottish missionaries and African-American ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Bombay Islam

    The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915

    by Nile Green ...
    As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • The Love of Strangers

    What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London

    by Nile Green ...
    How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Religion, Language, and Power

    Edited by Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers of power, whether scripturalist or otherwise normative and dominant. This book’s de-centering of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD