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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] His books have won awards and prizes, including the Bentley Book Prize from the World History Association, [5] the Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association, [6] and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Book Award from the Association for Asian Studies. [7]

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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). [8] [9] He has authored seven monographs and over seventy articles and has edited seven books. [9] 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 . [8] [9]

His writings examine the different ways in which Muslims have responded to the rise of the West and to the modern world in general, as well as Muslim responses to Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. [10] He has also written about Islam and globalization, and Sufism. [11] His publications focus not only on the Middle East, but on the larger Muslim communities of Asia and Africa, as well as Europe and the United States. [8] He has also written about the Indian Ocean and the Persianate world. [12] He also hosts the podcast Akbar's Chamber: Experts Talk Islam. [13]

Biography

He was born and educated in the United Kingdom, holding degrees from the University of London and the University of Cambridge. [14]

He began his academic career as the Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University before moving to the United States. [15] 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. [16] 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. [17] He was elected as Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. [18]

Academic career

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. [19] His research emphasizes the networks that link Muslim societies and their interactions with non-Muslim communities. [15]

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  1. ↑ "Green, Nile - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies". Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Profile - Nile Green - The Authors Guild". go.authorsguild.org. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  3. ↑ "Professor Nile Green". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  4. ↑ Creswell, Roby. "How 2 Generations of Fabulists Charmed the Literary World". New York Times.
  5. ↑ "World History Association". www.thewha.org.
  6. ↑ "Cultures is part of the Humanities Division within UCLA College". Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA.
  7. ↑ "Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize". Asian Studies.
  8. 1 2 3 "Nile Green". History.ucla.edu. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 "Nile Green". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  10. ↑ "Nile Green". UCLA. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  11. ↑ "A Literary-Fabulist Father-Son Duo, Revisited". airmail.news.
  12. ↑ "In and out of Persian, with Sumit Guha, Nile Green, Michael Fisher, Farina Mir, and Christine Philliou". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 1 May 2024.
  13. ↑ "Podcast – Episode 60: Inventing Ikbal". The Lausanne Project. 29 November 2024.
  14. ↑ "Nile Green – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation..." Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  15. 1 2 "UCLA historian publishes new book on Afghanistan". UCLA. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  16. ↑ "Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition". www.didiertais.com. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  17. ↑ "Devotional Expressions of South Asian Muslims Conference". www.iis.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Anand, Anita. "The Love of Strangers by Nile Green". New York Times.
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