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BOMBAY ISLAM
THE RELIGIOUS ECONOMY OF THE WEST INDIAN OCEAN, 1840-1915 |
| By: |
Nile Green |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£90.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521769248 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521769242 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 March, 2011 |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
Nile Green's Bombay Islam shows how Muslim migration from Bombay fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
19 b/w illus. 2 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Albert Hourani Book Award 2011 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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