グローバル化が進む現代社会で、地域的、政治的、文化的境界に伝播したイスラームに対する多様な見解を包括的に概観することを試みる初めての書です。個々の活動家、組織、国がグローバル化の過程でどのように変容したのか理解すべく、過去150年の歴史を振り返ります。サラフィズムからスーフィズムまで混在するさまざまな主義や主張を解きほぐし、違いを認識し比較できるよう解説します。イスラーム教が優勢な中東、対立が取り上げられる欧米にとどまらず、アジアやアフリカにも目配りします。
   

• Explains how Global Islam expanded via different phases and mechanisms of globalization from 1870 to the present-day
• Written to inform beginners and specialists alike
• Offers a clear definition and interpretive model of Global Islam to explain the interplay between Islam and globalization

  
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and increasing diversification of Global Islam - from individual activists to organizations and then states - over the past 150 years.
   
Historian Nile Green surveys not only the familiar venues of Islam in the Middle East and the West, but also Asia and Africa, explaining the doctrines of a wide variety of political and non-political versions of Islam across the spectrum from Salafism to Sufism. This Very Short Introduction will help readers to recognize and compare the various organizations competing to claim the authenticity and authority of representing the one true Islam.