Islam as a global religion. Review of "Global Islam" by Nile Green

What is it about?

When the journalist named Shotaro Noda (1868–1904) became the first Japanese Muslim in 1891, the event was widely publicized in the Ottoman press. This circumstance gives us a sense of Nile Green’s Global Islam. Not because converting a Japanese to Islam is an unimaginable event, and certainly not because the Ottoman press succeeded in publishing such news coming from the top of the world; the conversion was caused by the Ottoman outreach to Japan. Green’s book describes a methodology that involves looking at contemporary Islam in a new direction. A multifaceted approach to the spread of religious ideas involves taking into consideration the numerous connections and channels through which they spread.

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