Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring consequences these technological, economic, social, and cultural revolutions had on Muslim communities from North Africa to South Asia, the Indian Ocean and China.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print James L. Gelvin and Nile Green Part One. Communities and Networks 1. A Sufi Century? The Modern Spread of the Sufi Orders in Southeast Asia Michael Laffan 2. An Ottoman Pasha and the End of Empire: Sulayman al-Baruni and the Networks of Islamic Reform Amal Ghazal 3. "A Leading Muslim of Aden": Personal Trajectories, Imperial Networks, and the Construction of Community in Colonial Aden Scott S. Reese 4. Fin-de-Siecle Egypt: A Nexus for Mediterranean and Global Radical Networks Ilham Khuri-Makdisi Part Two. Contagions and Commodities 5. Hajj in the Time of Cholera: Pilgrim Ships and Contagion from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea Eric Tagliacozzo 6. Trafficking in Evil? The Global Arms Trade and the Politics of Disorder Robert Crews 7. The Creation of Iranian Music in the Age of Steam and Print, circa 188--1914 Ann E. Lucas 8. The Globalization of Dried Fruit: Transformations in the Eastern Arabian Economy, 186s--192s Matthew S. Hopper Part Three. Nodes and Routes 9. Remembering Java's Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka Ronit Ricci 1. From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism Jeremy Prestholdt 11. The Return of Gog: Politics and Pan-Islamism in the Hajj Travelogue of {ayn}Abd al-Majid Daryabadi Homayra Ziad 12. Taking {ayn}Abduh to China: Chinese-Egyptian Intellectual Contact in the Early Twentieth Century Zvi Ben-Dor Benite List of Contributors Index