Making Mosques in America and Japan; or, How Islam Went Truly Global

Subtitle: 
World History Center Speaker Series: East Asia, Eurasia, and the World
Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Date: 
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 12:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
3703 Posvar Hall
Contact Person: 
World History Center
Contact Phone: 
412-624-3073
Contact Email: 
worldhis@pitt.edu

In the early 1920s and 30s, the first purpose-built mosques were established in the United States and Japan. Despite being on the far sides of the planet in Detroit and Kobe, their foundation reflected the ability of South Asian Muslim "religious entrepreneurs" to operate on what was by the 1920s a truly global scale. In tracing the commonalities between this first institutional emergence of Islam in two new world regions, the lecture identifies the global processes of religious competition and exchange and the reasons why Indian Muslims emerged at the forefront of them.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
World Regions: 
Asia
International