Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Prologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby’s Corpse 1
6. Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas 7
7. 1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era 31
8. 2. Fatwas for the Partners’ Club: A Global Mufti’s Enterprise 45
9. 3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo 66
10. 4. Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism 96
11. 5. The Qurʾan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan 131
12. 6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam 159
13. 7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption 191
14. 8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial Framework 225
15. Conclusions 251
16. Notes 267
17. Selected Bibliography 339
18. Index 353