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Bombay Islam - The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Paperback)
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Bombay Islam - The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Paperback)
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As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted
migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam
traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the
production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand
for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries
competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new
market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in
religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular
printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as
South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour and
globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people - mill
hands and merchants - in shaping the demand that drove the market.
By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and
poems in Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a
vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean
drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment.
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