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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked re...

Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the m...

This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated ac...

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