Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA. His research focuses on the history and literature of the Muslim communities of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Indian Ocean. He is the editor of Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation, published by OUP. His book Bombay Islam was Winner of the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Award and the Association for Asian Studies' Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Book Award.
"This book is a remarkable achievement. Drawing on sources in
several languages from archives and libraries across the world. . .
Nile Green has produced an argument about how Islam has globalized
over the past two centuries. . . One major conclusion which flows
from his work is the central role of Indian Muslims in the
globalization of Islam."--Times Literary Supplement
"Based on numerous original sources recounting very personal
stories of exchange, Nile Green has written a compelling
introduction on this subject in Terrains of Exchange: Religious
Economies of Modern Islam . . . leaving the reader with a trove of
exciting life stories of religious entrepreneurs and theoretical
concepts which can be usefully applied to accounts of global
exchange in the future."--Dawn
"In a fairly short period of time, Nile Green, a very talented
social and cultural historian . . . has established himself as a
keen and insightful historian of modern Islam . . . his method is
an interesting way of engaging with global history through
vignettes of micro-history." -- The Muslim World Book Review
"Continuing the remarkable work begun in his Bombay Islam, Nile
Green expands the geographical scope of his exploration of
religious economies to include North America, Europe, India,
Southeast Asia and Japan. He emphasises the central role of
evangelical scholars in British universities and the Protestant
missionary presses in bringing into public circulation and debate
the religious texts of Islam and shows how the institutional form
and practices of the Protestant 'mission' would be adopted by
Islamic and Hindu religious movements such as the Ahmadiyya, the
Tablighi Jamaat and the Arya Samaj to proselytize all over the
world. This is a ground-breaking and thought-provoking book" --
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian
Studies, Columbia University
"Enthusiastic and enlightening ... Integrating religion with social
and political history, Terrains of Exchange digs deeply into the
meetings of East and West." --History Today
"Nile Green expands his innovative theme of "religious economy"
from his prize-winning book Bombay Islam to produce this
fascinating new study of ground-level Muslim entrepreneurship on a
global basis during the long nineteenth century, in locales as
diverse and yet connected as England, India, the United States, and
Japan."-- Michael H. Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor of
History, Oberlin College, USA
'Terrains of Exchange is a richly documented and elegantly written
account of the global encounter between both Muslim and Christian
missionaries, scholars, and holy men in the long nineteenth
century. Drawing on a dizzying array of sources in Persian, Urdu,
and various European languages, the author traces this encounter
through the stories of a number of individual actors across a
global religious economy (bridging Europe, India, Japan, and the
US) that, while intersecting with the institutions and practices of
empire, was never wholly subsumed by them.' -- John M. Willis,
Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado
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