Nile Green

Professor

Department: History

BOX 951473, 6265 Bunche
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Campus mailcode: 147303
green@history.ucla.edu

Keywords: India

"I am principally a historian of Islamic and Islamicate South Asia from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. However, I also specialise in the wider "Persian" world, including Afghanistan, Iran, and the Indian Ocean region. My more recent work has expanded into colonial social and cultural interchange, early Muslim travellers in Britain, South African history and Islam in global history.

Through an earlier background in Middle Eastern Studies and a strong interest in Islam in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, I also regard myself as a historian of Muslim societies more generally. Given the fact that South Asia is home to the world's largest Muslim population, my work seeks to position South Asia within a global and comparative perspective."

Publications

Books

Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (London & New York: Routledge, 2006). [See reviews by Francis Robinson in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17, 1 (2007) and Richard Eaton in Journal of Islamic Studies 18, 3 (2007)].

Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Faqirs and Sepoys in Hyderabad State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Religion, Language and Power, co-edited with Mary Searle-Chatterjee (London & New York: Routledge, 2008).

The Madrasas of Oxford, 1818: An Iranian Student in Regency England (forthcoming).

Customary Islam and Religious Reform (forthcoming).