Bombay Islam by Nile Green6/9/2023 ![]() 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. 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. 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. Nile Green East especially, political power has rarely been sited at coastal hubs of merchant activity, leaving such sites far from the focus of Middle East studies. ![]() "As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. ![]()
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