Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Modern Things on Trial
Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935
-
Leor Halevi
Language:
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.
Author / Editor information
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).
Reviews
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.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
List of Maps and Figures
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgments
ix -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Prologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby’s Corpse
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas
7 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era
31 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
2. Fatwas for the Partners’ Club: A Global Mufti’s Enterprise
45 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo
66 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
4. Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism
96 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
5. The Qurʾan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan
131 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam
159 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption
191 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial Framework
225 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Conclusions
251 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
267 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Selected Bibliography
339 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
353
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 22, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780231547970
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780231547970
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
