TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leor Halevi
TI  - Modern Things on Trial: Islam's Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865-1935
SN  - 9780231188661
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā.
KW  - Islamic reformist thought
KW  - Law
KW  - Material history
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Commodities and technologies
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Rashid Reda
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue: the parable of the Montgolfiere 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 Qur'an 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 vs. Islamic exclusivism in a territorial framework -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
ER  -