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    Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan

    Nile Green

    A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West's obsession with a fabricated, exotic East

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    The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London

    Nile Green

    In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise…

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    How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding

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    A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent

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    Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

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    Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.

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    Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

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    Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.

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    Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban

    Provides an overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Looking beyond the unifying rhetoric of theology, this book reveals the disparate and contested forms of Afghanistan’s Islam.

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    The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

    Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a…

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    Sufism: A Global History

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    Sufism: A Global History is a unique account of global Sufism, tracing the gradual spread and adaptation of Sufi Islam through the Middle East into Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia…

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    Sufism - A Global History

    Nile Green

    Sufism: A Global History is a unique account of global Sufism, tracing the gradual spread and adaptation of Sufi Islam through the Middle East into Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia…

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    The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London

    Nile Green

    In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise…

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    Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India

    Nile Green (University of California)

    This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in early modern India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. Tracing how different Muslim communities located their…

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    Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes

    Considers how Afghan intellectuals and ordinary people interpret their own history

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    Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire

    Nile Green (University of California, Los Angeles)

    This book studies the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers’ relationships…

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    Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915

    Nile Green (University of California, Los Angeles)

    As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green’s Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to…

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    Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915

    Nile Green (University of California, Los Angeles)

    As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green’s Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to…

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    Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire

    Nile Green (University of California, Los Angeles)

    This book studies the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers’ relationships…

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    Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation

    Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history…

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    Religion, Language, and Power

    Using an approach that is both comparative and historical, and relying upon case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan, the authors of this volume…

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    Religion, Language, and Power

    Using an approach that is both comparative and historical, and relying upon case studies ranging from China and Iran to India, Britain, America and Kurdistan, the authors of this volume…

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    Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print

    Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities…

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    Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam

    Professor Nile Green (Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford UK)

    Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, African American car workers and Japanese imperialists, Terrains of Exchange uncovers the local sites of globalization that transformed Islam in the…

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    Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915

    Nile Green (University of California, Los Angeles)

    As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green’s Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to…

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    The Wizard Of The Nile: The Hunt For Joseph Kony

    Matthew Green

    Part Le Carre, part Gourevitch, the high-octane story of a journey into one of the wildest corners of the African continent in search of a psychopath who has consistently evaded…

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    Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction

    Nile Green (Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History, UCLA)

    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…

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    Rommel in North Africa: Quest for the Nile

    David Mitchelhill-Green

    A new and richly illustrated account of Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, in North Africa.

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    Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899

    Dominic Green

    A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as…

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    Armies of God: Islam and Empire on the Nile, 1869-1899

    Dominic Green

    In the late 19th century, the river Nile became the setting for the first major encounter between the West and Islam in the modern era. In a collision between Europeans…

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    Writing Travel in Central Asian History

    For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a range of Asian and European…

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    Writing Travel in Central Asian History

    For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a range of Asian and European…

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