Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print

Author： Gelvin > James L.

Publisher： University Of California Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9780520957220

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780520275027

Subject： K37 West Asia (ESCWA)

Keyword：世界史

Language： ENG

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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history.

In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.

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Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print

PART ONE. COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS

1. A Sufi Century? The Modern Spread of the Sufi Orders in Southeast Asia

2. An Ottoman Pasha and the End of Empire: Sulayman al-Baruni and the Networks of Islamic Reform

3. “A Leading Muslim of Aden”: Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks, and the Construction of Community in Colonial Aden

4. Fin-de-Siècle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical Networks

PART TWO. CONTAGIONS AND COMMODITIES

5. Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea

6. Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of Disorder

7. The Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, circa 1880–1914

8. The Globalization of Dried Fruit: Transformations in the Eastern Arabian Economy, 1860s–1920s

PART THREE. NODES AND ROUTES

9. Remembering Java’s Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka

10. From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism

11. The Return of Gog: Politics and Pan-Islamism in the Hajj Travelogue of 'Abd al-Majid Daryabadi

12. Taking 'Abduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century

List of Contributors

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