Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Parable of the Montgolfière and the Translation of Haleby's Corpse -- Introduction: Good Things Made Lawful: Euro-Muslim Objects and Laissez-Faire Fatwas -- 1. The Toilet Paper Fatwa: Hygienic Innovation and the Sacred Law in the Late Imperial Era -- 2. Fatwas for the Partners' Club: A Global Mufti's Enterprise -- 3. In a Material World: European Expansion from Tripoli to Cairo -- 4. Paper Money and Consummate Men: Capitalism and the Rise of Laissez-Faire Salafism -- 5. The Qurʾan in the Gramophone: Sounds of Islamic Modernity from Cairo to Kazan -- 6. Telegraphs, Photographs, Railways, Law Codes: Tools of Empire, Tools of Islam -- 7. Arabian Slippers: The Turn to Nationalistic Consumption -- 8. Lottery Tickets, Luxury Hotels, and Christian Experts: Economic Liberalism Versus Islamic Exclusivism in a Territorial Framework -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index