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Modern Things on Trial
Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935
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Leor Halevi
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial novelties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam’s material transformation in a globalizing era.
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Halevi Leor :
Leor Halevi (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard) is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad’s Grave (Columbia, 2007) and the coeditor (with Francesca Trivellato) of Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 (Oxford, 2014).Leor Halevi is associate professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia, 2007).
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Brinkley Messick, author of Shari‘a Scripts:
Halevi’s study is striking, original, and important. He offers a new perspective on reformist thought in the Muslim world, contributing significantly to the studies of Islamic law and material history.
Halevi’s study is striking, original, and important. He offers a new perspective on reformist thought in the Muslim world, contributing significantly to the studies of Islamic law and material history.
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eBook published on:
July 22, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780231547970
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780231547970
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Professional and scholarly;
