Nile Green
Nile Green (born 1972[1]) is an English[2] historian and author.[3] He is known for his book Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan.[4]
He is the William Andrews Clark Professor of History and the current holder of the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[5][6] He has authored seven monographs and over seventy articles and has edited seven books.[6] He was a founding director of UCLA's Program on Central Asia, in addition to various boards, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies.[6] [5]
His research and study focuses on Islamic history of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, including that of the wider Persianate world.[5][7]
Biography
[edit]He was born and educated in the United Kingdom, holding degrees from the University of London and the University of Cambridge.[8]
He began his academic career as the Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University before moving to the United States.[9] At UCLA, Green served as the founding director of the Program on Central Asia for eight years, fostering research on historical and contemporary connections within the region.[10] He has also held visiting positions at institutions such as the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has received fellowships, including the Luce/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs.[11] He was elected as Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.[12]
Academic career
[edit]Green's work investigates patterns of both global and local Islams through travel and field research in regions including South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.[13] His research emphasizes the networks that link Muslim societies and their interactions with non-Muslim communities.[9]
Selected bibliography
[edit]- Green, Nile (2024). Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1324002413.
- Green, Nile (2014). Terrains of exchange: religious economies of global Islam. London: Hurst & company. ISBN 978-1-84904-428-8.
- Green, Niles (2020). The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London. Princeton University Press. p. 410. ISBN 978-0691210407.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Green, Nile (2012). Sufism: a global history. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 286. ISBN 978-1-4051-5765-0.
- NIle Green (2009). Islam And The Army In Colonial India: Sepoy Religion In The Service Of Empire.
- Green, Nile; Searle-Chatterjee, Mary, eds. (2008). Religion, language and power. Routledge studies in religion (First published ed.). New York London[: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-54204-3.
References
[edit]- ^ "Green, Nile - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies". Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ "Profile - Nile Green - The Authors Guild". go.authorsguild.org. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
- ^ "Professor Nile Green". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Creswell, Roby. "How 2 Generations of Fabulists Charmed the Literary World". New York Times.
- ^ a b c "Nile Green". History.ucla.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ a b c "Nile Green". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ "Nile Green". UCLA. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ "Nile Green – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation…". Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ a b "UCLA historian publishes new book on Afghanistan". UCLA. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ "Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition". www.didiertais.com. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ "Devotional Expressions of South Asian Muslims Conference". www.iis.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Miranda, Carolina A. (2018-04-05). "Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announces new fellows — and pays tribute to grantees from California". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Anand, Anita. "The Love of Strangers by Nile Green". New York Times.
