Modern Things on Trial : : Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935 / / Leor Halevi.
In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things-synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultura...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby's Corpse
- Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas
- 1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era
- 2. Fatwas for the Partners' Club: A Global Mufti's Enterprise
- 3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo
- 4. Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism
- 5. The Qurʾan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan
- 6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam
- 7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption
- 8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial Framework
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index