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Bombay Islam - The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Hardcover)
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Bombay Islam - The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 (Hardcover)
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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 from the
oceanic and continental hinterlands of Bombay in this period 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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