Nile Green is professor of history and Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA. A former Guggenheim fellow, Green is the prize-winning author of Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and Sufism: A Global History, among many other titles.
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In literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, father and son, Ikbal and Idries Shah, spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned travelogues and exotic potboilers alo... SEE MORE