Nile Green

Nile Green is Professor of History at UCLA, with an interest in the multiple globalization of Islam and Muslims. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.

In pursuit of the patterns of both global and local Islams, he has traveled and researched in India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Chinese Central Asia, the Caucasus, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Yemen, Oman, Jordan, Morocco, South Africa, Myanmar, Malaysia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

His seven monographs, seven edited books, and over seventy articles have traced Muslim networks that connect South and Central Asia with the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, Africa, Japan, Europe and the United States. His most recent book, The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as Editors’ Choice. An earlier book, Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, received both the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award and the Association for Asian Studies’ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Award. His other books include Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam; Sufism: A Global History; and, as co-editor, Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930.

Books in order of publication:

Books (Monographs)

Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 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).