Nile Green

Books (Monographs)

• Sea of Difference: Connection & Comprehension across the Indian Ocean (forthcoming)
• Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020).
• The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).
• Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
• Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award & the Association for Asian Studies’ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Book Award
• Sufism: A Global History (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; reprinted 2013).
• Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
• Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009; paperback, 2012).
• Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (London: Routledge, 2006; paperback 2009).

Books (Edited)

• The Persianiate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca (University of California Press, 2019). [Free online version available]
• Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017). [Free online version available]
• Afghan History through Afghan Eyes, edited by Nile Green (New York: Oxford University Press,  2016).
• Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930, edited by James Gelvin & Nile Green (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).
• Writing Travel in Central Asian History, edited by Nile Green (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014).
• Afghanistan in Ink: Literature between Diaspora and Nation, edited by Nile Green & Nushin Arbabzadah (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
• Religion, Language and Power, edited by Nile Green & Mary Searle-Chatterjee (New York: Routledge, 2008; paperback 2012).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• “The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900),” in Nile Green (ed.), The Persianiate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019).
• “Proletarian Bodies and Muslim Festivals: Disciplining Pleasure in Colonial Bombay,” in Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat and Rachel Dwyer (eds), Bombay Before Mumbai (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
• “The Waves of Heterotopia: Toward a Vernacular Intellectual History of the Indian Ocean,” American Historical Review 123, 3 (2018).
• “From Persianate Pasts to Aryan Antiquity: Transnationalism and Transformation in Afghan Intellectual History, c.1880–1940,” Afghanistan 1, 1 (2018).
• “What is ‘Global Islam’? Definitions for a Field of Inquiry,” Diogenes 256 (2018).
• “The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Civilizational History & the Nationalizing of Afghan Antiquity”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, 4 (2016).
• “The View from the Edge: The Indian Ocean’s Middle East”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, 3 (2016).
• “Muslims, Europe, and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’: How Can Historiography Help Us?”, Perspectives on Europe (2016).
• “Fordist Connections: The Automotive Integration of the United States and Iran”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, 2 (2016).
• “A History of Afghan Historiography”, in Nile Green (ed.), Afghan History through Afghan Eyes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
• “The Hajj as its Own Undoing: Infrastructure & Integration on the Muslim Journey to Mecca”, Past & Present 226 (2015).
• “Islam in the Early Modern World”, in Jerry Bentley & Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds), The New Cambridge World History: The Early Modern Period, vol.6, pt.2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
• “Buddhism, Islam and the Religious Economy of Colonial Burma”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 46, 2 (2015).
• “The Global Occult: An Introduction”, History of Religions 54, 4 (2015).
• “Re-Thinking the ‘Middle East’ After the Oceanic Turn”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34, 3 (2014).
• “From the Silk Road to the Railroad (and Back): The Means and Meanings of the Iranian Encounter with China”, Iranian Studies 48, 2 (2015) (download pdf).
• “Breaking the Begging Bowl: Morals, Drugs & Madness in the Fate of the Muslim Faqir“, South Asian History & Culture 5, 2 (2014).
• “Spacetime and the Muslim Journey West: Industrial Communications in the Making of the ‘Muslim World'”, American Historical Review 118, 2 (2013).
• “Shared Infrastructures, Informational Asymmetries: Persians and Indians in Japan, c. 1890-1930”, Journal of Global History 8, 3 (2013).
• “Locating Afghan History”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 45, 1 (2013).
• “Forgotten Futures: Indian Muslims in the Trans-Islamic Turn to Japan”, Journal of Asian Studies 72, 3 (2013).
• “Maritime Worlds and Global History: Comparing the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean through Barcelona and Bombay”, History Compass 11, 7 (2013).
• “Anti-Colonial Japanophilia and the Constraints of an Islamic Japanology: Information and Affect in the Indian Encounter with Japan”, Journal of South Asian History and Culture 4, 3 (2013).
• “The Afghan Afterlife of Phileas Fogg: Space and Time in the Literature of Afghan Travel”, in Nile Green & Nushin Arbabzadah (eds), Afghanistan in Ink: Literature between Diaspora and Nation (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
• “The Rail Hajjis: The Trans-Siberian Railway and the Long Way to Mecca”, in Venetia Porter (ed.), Hajj: Collected Essays (London: British Museum, 2013).
• “Africa in Indian Ink: Urdu Articulations of Indian Settlement in East Africa”, Journal of African History 53, 2 (2012).
• “Urdu as an African Language: A Survey of a Source Literature”, Islamic Africa 3, 2 (2012).
• “Parnassus of the Evangelical Empire: Orientalism in the English Universities, 1800-1850”, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, 3 (2012).
• “The Trans-Border Traffic of Afghan Modernism: Afghanistan and the Indian ‘Urdusphere’”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 53, 3 (2011).
• “The Trans-Colonial Opportunities of Bible Translation: Iranian Language-Workers between the Russian and British Empires”, in Michael Dodson & Brian Hatcher (eds), Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia (London: Routledge, 2012).
• “The Road to Kabul: Automobiles and Afghan Internationalism, 1900-1940”, in Magnus Marsden & Benjamin Hopkins (eds), Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).
• “The Madrasas of Oxford: Iranian Interactions with the English Universities in the Early Nineteenth Century”, Iranian Studies 44, 6 (2011).
• “Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of Anglo-Persian Dining, 1800-1835”, in Derryl Maclean & Sikeena Karmali (eds), Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).
• “The Propriety of Poetry: Morality and Mysticism in the Nineteenth Century Urdu Religious Lyric”, Middle Eastern Literatures 13, 3 (2010).
• “The Dilemmas of the Pious Biographer: Missionary Islam and the Oceanic Hagiography”, Journal of Religious History 34, 4 (2010).
• “Stones from Bavaria: Iranian Lithography in its Global Contexts”, Iranian Studies 43, 3 (2010). [Persian translation published in Payam-e Baharestan tabestan 1391 (summer 2012)]
• “Persian Print and the Stanhope Revolution: Industrialization, Evangelicalism & the Birth of Printing in Early Qajar Iran”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 30, 3 (2010). [Persian translation published in Iran Nameh: A Persian Quarterly of Iranian Studies 26, 3-4 (2011)]
• “The Uses of Books in a Late Mughal Takiyya: Persianate Knowledge between Person and Paper”, Modern Asian Studies 44, 2 (2010).