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.

Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a proselytising global brand.
Drawing Indian, Arab, Iranian and Tatar Muslims together with Scottish missionaries and African-American converts, Nile Green brings to life the local sites of globalisation where Islam was repeatedly reinvented in modern times. Evoking terrains of exchange from Russia's imperial borderlands to the factories of Detroit and the ports of Japan, he casts a microhistorian's eye on the innovative new Islams that emerged from these sites of contact.
Drawing on a multilingual range of materials, the book challenges the idea that globalisation has given rise to a unified "global Islam." Instead, it reveals the forces behind the fracturing of Islam in the hands of feuding and fissiparous "'religious firms".
Terrains of Exchange not only presents global history as Islamic history. It also reveals the forces of that history at work in the world today.

Introduction: Terrains of Exchange
Evangelicals: Missionary Catalysts, Muslim Responses
Chapter 1: Parnassus of the Evangelical Empire
Chapter 2: The Christian Origins of Muslim Printing
Chapter 3: The Islamic Opportunities of Bible Translation
Innovators: Communal Competitors, Local Cosmopolitans
Chapter 4: Missionaries, Mystics and Mill-Owners
Chapter 5: The Invention of a Hindu Sufism
Exporters: Pious Passengers, Islamic Impresarios
Chapter 6: Making Islam in the Motor City
Chapter 7: Founding the First Mosque in Japan