Modern things on trial : Islam's global and material reformation in the age of Rida, 1865-1935 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the parable of the Montgolfiere and the translation of Haleby's corpse
- Introduction: Good things made lawful: Euro-muslim objects and laissez-faire fatwas
- 1. The toilet-paper fatwa: hygienic innovation and the sacred law in the late imperial era
- 2. Fatwas for the partners' club: a global mufti's enterprise
- 3. In a material world: European expansion from Tripoli to Cairo
- 4. Paper money and consummate men: Capitalism and the rise of laissez-faire Salafism
- 5. The Qur'an in the gramophone: sounds of Islamic modernity from Cairo to Kazan
- 6. Telegraphs, photographs, railways, law codes: Tools of empire, tools of Islam
- 7. Arabian slippers: the turn to nationalistic consumption
- 8. Lottery tickets, luxury hotels, and Christian experts: Economic liberalism vs. Islamic exclusivism in a territorial framework
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.