Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print / / James L. Gelvin, Nile Green

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453950803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95722-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.09767081; 909/.09767081
• Soggetti: Technology -- Islamic countries -- History -- 19th century; Islamic civilization - History - 19th century - Islamic countries; Technology - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.