Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)
Contributors: miriam cooke (Editor); Bruce B. Lawrence (Editor)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: February 2, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780807829233
Subjects: Islamic Studies; World history; Ummah (Islam); Middle East - General; Islam; Social Science; Sociology of Religion; Sociology; Islamic countries; Panislamism; Vincent J. Cornell; David Gilmartin; Charles Kurzman; Muhammad Qasim Zaman; Judith Ernst; Tayba Sharif Samya; Samia Serageldin; Jamilla Karim; Carl Ernst; Quintan Wiktorowicz; Gary Bunt; Jon Anderson; Taieb Belghazi; Samy Alim; Mecca; Medina; Arabia; Senegal; Indonesia; Prophet Muhammad; Islam; umma; Morocco; Ibn Battuta; Computer network resources; Islam - General; 21st century
First sentence: From Mecca to Medina, from Arabia to Senegal to Indonesia and always back to Arabia and to Mecca, this has been the spatial rhythm, the mobile trajectory of Islam over the past fifteen centuries.