Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
UC Irvine 2008
Participant
Nile Green is an Associate Professor in the History Department at UCLA. He was previously Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester and Milburn Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the history of Islam in South Asia, particularly on the social and political history of Indian Sufism. However, he has also written on Indo-Islamic reform, the circulation of sacred objects, Muslim travel writing, the ethnogenesis of the Afghans, the history of dreaming and early Islamic printing. His publications include Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (London & New York: Routledge, 2006), a co-edited volume (with Mary Searle-Chatterjee) titled Religion, Language and Power (New York: Routledge, 2008) and Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion & the Service of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is currently completing a book on enchanting modernity in the Indian Ocean.
contact: green@history.ucla.edu