Global Islam, Nile Green
Global Islam, Nile Green
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Global Islam
A Very Short Introduction

Author: Nile Green

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 5 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/19/2021


Synopsis

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 listeners to recognize and compare the various organizations competing to claim the authenticity and authority of representing the one true Islam.

About Nile Green

Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is recognized as one of the world's leading historians of Islam. He has written numerous books, including How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding and Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Oliver

For many people this might be exactly the book they are looking for. Compared with the novel Dune, which talks of a distant future dominated by an oppressive form of Islam, this is about the actual changes in Islam made in the last 150 years by a minority of reformers, who breached traditional rules......more

Goodreads review by Cav

Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction did not meet my expectations. I have read a few books in the "Very Short Introduction" collection, and usually enjoy them. This book fell short of the high bar established by the other books in this series. Author Nile Green is a Professor of History and the cu......more

Goodreads review by Yusuf

Küresel İslâmî hareketlerin çok detaylı bir haritalandırmasını yapıyor yazar. Aslında Ruşen Çakır'ın Ayet ve Slogan kitabının küresel ölçekte yapılmışı diyebilirim. Detayları görmek için değil, ama kuşbakışı haritayı ve bağlantıları görmek açısından çok iyi bir metin.......more

Goodreads review by Josiah

I always disdain unclear/vague book titles. So, it would be helpful to mention what this book is actually about. Green looks to give a quick generalization of what Islam is, a brief background of the religion itself, and a short overview of prominent Islamic theologians. After this, he is on to the......more

Goodreads review by Scott

One of the best books I can recommend for my friends to understand a little bit more when I'm talking about Islam. I really recommend this book to people who are beginning to understand and trying to grapple with what Islam is today and why it looks like how it does in different places and spaces. I......more