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ISBN10: 0190222530, ISBN13: 9780190222536, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 1st edition. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 0190222530, ISBN13: 9780190222536, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 converts, Nile Green brings to life the local sites of globalisation where Islam was repeatedly reinvented in modern times. Evoking terrains of exchange from Russia's imperial borderlands to the factories of Detroit and the ports of Japan, he casts a microhistorian's eye on the innovative new Islams that emerged from these sites of contact. Drawing on a multilingual range of materials, the book challenges the idea that globalisation 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". Terrains of Exchange not only presents global history as Islamic history. It also reveals the forces of that history at work in the world today. Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, African American car workers and Japanese imperialists, Terrains of Exchange uncovers the local sites of globalization ...
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ISBN10: 0190222530, ISBN13: 9780190222536, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2015-05-15] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

ISBN10: 0190222530, ISBN13: 9780190222536, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2015]

Oxford University Press, USA 2015 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations.