 | Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935 Subjects: Islamic modernism; Islamic countries -- Civilization.; Muslims -- Intellectual life; Islam and science; Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā; Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial novelties 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. Halevi Leor : Leor Halevi (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard) is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad's Grave (Columbia, 2007) and the coeditor (with Francesca Trivellato) of Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 (Oxford, 2014).Leor Halevi is associate 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). |
