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-Ismā'īlism; 6. A theology for the mills and dockyards; 7. Bombay Islam in the ocean's southern city.
Nile Green's Bombay Islam shows how Muslim migration from Bombay fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers.
Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and Islamic History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many books, including Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire (2009), Religion, Language and Power, co-edited with Mary Searle Chatterjee (2008), Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (2006), and Sufism: A Global History (2012).
'Bombay Islam is a highly original account of how Muslim religious
activity thrived in, and emanated out of, British-era Bombay,
reaching across the seas to Iran and South Africa … This book
offers a new and important transregional perspective on Islam in
nineteenth-century India and the Indian Ocean.' A. Azfar Moin,
Religious Studies Review
'From the first page onwards, Green not only provides a piece of
profound historic research but takes the reader on a trip from the
dockyards and cotton mills to the saints' shrines and bookshops of
Bombay to Hyderabad, Gujarat, Iran or South Africa. Thereby he
enriches his narrative language with anecdotes, stories of myths
and miracles from nineteenth-century accounts … this book is
milestone in analyzing religious networks and their activities in
South Asian history!' Fabian Falter, Sehepunkte (www.sehepunkte.de)
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