Nile Green, “Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam” (Oxford UP, 2015)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Oct 17, 2016 · 1h 2m

The historical convergence of European imperialism and technological innovation in communication and travel made multiple social sites of intersection between the local and global possible. Nile Green, Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA, examines how these terrains of exchange transformed Islam during the modern period from roughly 1800-1940 in his book, Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam (Oxford University Press, 2015). Green sees religion as a tool for social power and explores various religious economies to determine how interpretations of Islam are…