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 Islamà â â s material transformation in a globalizing era.
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 Islamà â â s material transformation in a globalizing era.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Leor Halevi is professor of history and law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
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 Qur¿an 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
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 Qur¿an 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
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