Islam and Modernity in the Middle East [New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]) clearly
emphasizes the argument of the essential incompatibility between Islam and modernity and …

Combining international and domestic perspectives, this book analyzes the transformation of
the Ottoman Empire over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It views privatization of …

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 …

Drawing on previously unavailable archival material, this book argues that Indonesian
nationalism rested on Islamic ecumenism heightened by colonial rule and the pilgrimage …

The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is the most interesting phenomenon in contemporary
Indonesian politics. Not only is it growing rapidly in membership and electoral support, it is …

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in
Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from …

This important study examines the Indo-Muslim attitude towards the Ottomans from the start
of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877 until the end of the Caliphate in 1924. The period treated …

The mystical and hierarchically organized brotherhoods, the sufi, were first formed in the
twelfth century in Iraq, Iran, central Asia, and North Africa. These brotherhoods drew their …

This essay surveys literature on the engagement of different European empires, including
the French, British, Dutch, Russian, and German, with Islam. While the history of Islam and …

For those who have, or once had it, power holds a strange fascination. For that very reason it
waxes men inventive. It is almost invariably surrounded by ideologies of legitimacy, which …