"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 'e¦ 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.