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The Muslim Discovery of Japan

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The Muslim Discovery of Japan, c.1890-1940 In the half-century between 1890 and 1940, Muslims from India, the Middle East and Central Asia turned in fascination to Japan as an independent and industrializing ‘eastern’ (mashriqi) nation. As itinerant Muslim intellectuals struggled … Read more

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