Foreign thinker
Nile Green
Nile GreenIslamic history, Iranian studies, and South Asian studiesBritish
“The history of the Islamic world must be seen through its human and cultural connections, movements, and interactions.”
Life and Thought
Nile Green is a British historian and professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), whose research examines the history of Islam, Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia. He focuses especially on the social and cultural history of Muslim societies and their connections in the modern and contemporary periods.
Nile Green is a British historian and professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His principal fields of research are the history of Islam, Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia, particularly the social and cultural history of Muslim societies.
In his work, Green has examined human mobility, intellectual and religious networks, migration, Sufism, connections among societies, and the formation of the modern Islamic world. His approach studies history through transnational connections and cultural interaction.
His important books include Islam and the Army in Colonial India, Sufism: A Global History, and The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's England. Persianate Pioneers: The First Generations of Iranian Migrants in the United States is also among his studies of the history of Iranian migration.
By focusing on historical connections among Iran, the Islamic world, and other regions, Green has sought to offer a more complex account of modern Muslim history and of the role of human and cultural movement in shaping societies.