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Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction

By Nile Green

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
0190917237, 9780190917234
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2495056 bytes)
Series
Very Short Introductions
Pages
160\0
Topic
Religion
Time added
2020-12-05 16:46:06

Description

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. This Very Short Introduction will help readers to recognize and compare the various organizations competing to claim the authenticity and authority of representing the one true Islam.

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