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(0)Nile Green
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghanistan’s Islam, including such issues as the rise of Sufism,...
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English
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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent
The 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: the maritime public sphere expanded from Istanbul...
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English
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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...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Four experts (Michael Berry, Karl Gerth, Nile Green, and Pankaj Mishra) offer unique insights into different aspects of contemporary Asian society based upon their personal and professional experiences, sharing their perspectives on the similarities and differences between Asia and the West.