Modern things on trial : Islam's global and material reformation in the age of Rida, 1865-1935 / Leor Halevi

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Halevi, Leor [Author]

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online resource

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9780231547970

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BP166 .M634 2019

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Subject: Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations 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

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Intro; Table of 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 Qurʼan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan6. 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

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations 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

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