Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 /
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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- -- 1. Missionaries and reformists in the market of Islams
- - 2. Cosmopolitan cults and the economy of miracles
- - 3. The enchantment of industrial communications
- - 4. Exports for an Iranian marketplace
- - 5. The making of a neo-Isma'ilism
- - 6. A theology for the mills and dockyards
- - 7. Bombay Islam in the Ocean's southern city
- -- Conclusions.