Drawing together Indian and Iranian Muslims with Christian missionaries, African American car workers and Japanese imperialists, Terrains of Exchange uncovers the local sites of globalization that transformed Islam in the modern era. Using the model of 'religious economy' to explain Muslim interactions with a widening world, the book recasts global history as Islamic history.

Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic history at UCLA. His research focuses on the history and literature of the Muslim communities of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Indian Ocean. He is the editor of Afghanistan in Ink: Literature Between Diaspora and Nation, published by OUP. His book Bombay Islam was Winner of the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Award and the Association for Asian Studies' Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Book Award.