02150cam a22002774a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059040000800074050002400082100002500106245009300131260005100224300001900275505001700294518001500311520109700326650005501423650004501478650004601523650004901569651004701618900001401665942001301679999001901692952016101711100628s2011    enkab    b    001 0 eng    a9780521769242  a0521769248  aSDU00aHB2100bG795 B 20111 aGreen, Nile.920622410aBombay Islam :bthe religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 /cNile Green.  aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2011.  a327 p. :bill.  aHKBU library  aYT2025 M10  a"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"-- 0aInternal migrantszIndiazMumbaixHistory.9206225 0aMuslimszIndiazMumbaixHistory.9206226 0aIranianszIndiazMumbaixHistory.9206227 0aEconomicsxReligious aspectsxIslam.9206228 0aMumbai (India)xCommercexHistory.9206229  a= C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c107761d107761  00102lcc406HB2100 G795 B2011708CGB9284825aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-10-17e2l0oHB2100 G795 B 2011p1000370399r2025-10-17 00:00:00tC.1w2025-10-17yGBE