01977cam a22002654a 4500 100628s2011 enkab b 001 0 eng 9780521769242 0521769248 SDU HB2100 G795 B 2011 Green, Nile. 206224 Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 / Nile Green. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 327 p. : ill. HKBU library YT2025 M10 "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"-- Internal migrants India Mumbai History. 206225 Muslims India Mumbai History. 206226 Iranians India Mumbai History. 206227 Economics Religious aspects Islam. 206228 Mumbai (India) Commerce History. 206229 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107761 107761 0 0 lcc 0 HB2100 G795 B2011 0 CGB 284825 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-17 2 0 HB2100 G795 B 2011 1000370399 2025-10-17 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-17 GBE