Nile Green

Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Nile Green is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His latest book is The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London (2016).

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What happened when a Muslim student went to Cambridge in 1816

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A lively celebration with musicians, people dancing, and colourful decorations hanging from the ceiling in a festive room.

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Islam’s forgotten bohemians

With its subversive poetry, rejection of politics, and ecstatic rituals, Sufi Islam continues to surprise and to thrive

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A man in traditional attire performs a Whirling Dervish dance with arms raised. People watch in the background.

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Why ISIS hates the Sufis and blows up their shrines

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