Muslim Internationalism and Islamic Socialism

Harvard HDS

This seminar explores the transnational networks through which Muslim reformers, missionaries, writers, and activists imagined Islam as a source of global solidarity and social change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across South Asia, Britain, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, students examine how Muslims used journals, translations, associations, and missionary work to connect communities across oceans and empires.Drawing on historical…