Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction

Nile Green

Paperback, 160 pages

9780190917234

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.

Contents

1. What is “global Islam”?

2. Islam in the age of empire, steam, and print

3. Defending Islam from the secular world order

4. From Islamic revolutions to the Internet