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Global Islam : a very short introduction /

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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Nile
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2020.
Series:Very short introductions.
Subjects:
Globalization > Religious aspects > Islam.
Islam > 20th century.
Islam > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series page
  • Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: What is "global Islam"?
  • A question of definition
  • Accounting for "multiple Islams"
  • The big picture in overview
  • Chapter 2: Islam in the age of empire, steam, and print
  • The Ottoman campaign for Islamic Unity
  • The imperial networks of Islamic liberalism
  • Exporting Islamic reform from Russia
  • The making of Salafism
  • Itinerant Sufis of the Indian Ocean
  • Globalizing Shiʻism
  • Connecting Southeast Asia and China
  • India's messianic missionaries
  • Two failed political campaigns
  • Chapter 3: Defending Islam from the secular world order
  • Exporting Egyptian Salafism
  • Muslim Brothers on the Suez Canal
  • An Indian madrasa's missionary offspring
  • A Sufism adapted for the West
  • The collective power of congresses
  • Interwar Shiʻi internationalism
  • In the wake of the Second World War
  • A Muslim United Nations
  • Organizing Saudi ascendancy
  • Proselytizing from the Land of the Pure
  • Mobile vanguards of the call for revolution
  • Brothers in exile
  • From Sunni to Shiʻi revolutionaries
  • Sufi nonpolitical alternatives
  • Chapter 4: From Islamic revolutions to the Internet
  • The oil boom of Saudi Salafism
  • The jihad against godless socialism
  • From antisocialist jihad to anti-imperialist revolution
  • Transnational responses of traditionalist Shiʻism
  • An Islamic scramble for Africa
  • Competing Pakistani preaching societies
  • The many forms of Muslim Brotherhood
  • Rival relocations to Europe
  • Africa as a global exporter of Islam
  • The opening up of China
  • The opening up of post-Soviet central Asia
  • The "little jihads" of the 1990s
  • From nongovernmental organizations to Islamic banking.
  • Multiple choices for the millennial generation
  • Global Islam goes online
  • The disruptive innovations of ISIS
  • Conclusions
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Index.