Bombay Islam The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840}}}1915 [Hardcover]

Nile Green's Bombay Islam shows how Muslim migration from Bombay fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers.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 Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as they competed for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, steam travel, and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. The book examines the role of ordinary people 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 drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment.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 Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as they competed for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, steam travel, and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. The book examines the role of ordinary people 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 drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment.As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between induslS-