Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print 9780520957220
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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 ʿAbd al-Majid Daryabadi
12. Taking ʿAbduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century
List of Contributors
Index
