The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history. In this volume, leading scholars of the Islamic world recount the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and China. Drawing on a multiplicity of approaches and genres, from commodity history to biography to social network theory, the essays in Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print offer new and diverse perspectives on a transnational community in an era of global transformation.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and PrintJames L. Gelvin and Nile GreenPart One. Communities and Networks1. A Sufi Century? The Modern Spread of the Sufi Orders in Southeast AsiaMichael Laffan2. An Ottoman Pasha and the End of Empire: Sulayman al-Baruni and the Networks of Islamic ReformAmal Ghazal3. "A Leading Muslim of Aden": Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks, and the Construction of Community in Colonial AdenScott S. Reese4. Fin-de-Siècle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical NetworksIlham Khuri-MakdisiPart Two. Contagions and Commodities5. Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red SeaEric Tagliacozzo6. Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of DisorderRobert Crews7. The Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, circa 188-1914Ann E. Lucas8. The Globalization of Dried Fruit: Transformations in the Eastern Arabian Economy, 186s-192sMatthew S. HopperPart Three. Nodes and Routes9. Remembering Java's Islamization: A View from Sri LankaRonit Ricci1. From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of CosmopolitanismJeremy Prestholdt11. The Return of Gog: Politics and Pan-Islamism in the Hajj Travelogue of {ayn}Abd al-Majid DaryabadiHomayra Ziad12. Taking {ayn}Abduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth CenturyZvi Ben-Dor BeniteList of ContributorsIndex