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In addition to reiterating the arguments with regard to diversity and liberalism explained in the Introduction and supported throughout the book, the Conclusion compares the trajectories of the movements examined, Bahá’í, Woking Muslim Mission (WMM) and Zionist, and the networks that sustained them. It explains instances of parallelism with regard to Bahá’í and Zionist networks despite lack of alliance or affinity and addresses the similarities between the Bahá’í movement and the WMM despite their separate development and only occasional crossing of paths. The chapter explains how the book complicates common assumptions with regard to the metropole–periphery dynamic, for in each case the metropole was not the place of origin for the core or canonical ideologies of the movements in question but, rather, and significantly, it served as the international nexus where people from different, and often otherwise unconnected, parts of the world were able to meet, and therefore where equally diverse ideas could make their way from one area of the periphery to another, from periphery to outside the empire and vice versa. It observes how the book as a whole speaks to the complex ways that people and movements, already characterized by hybridity between Occident and Orient both culturally and practically, could intersect with an equally hybridized empire, during a period when the British state had reached the apogee of its expansion in the East, allowing those historical actors to realize goals that were independent of and therefore capable of outlasting the empire itself.
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