Bombay Islam - The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Nile Green's Bombay Islam shows how Muslim migration from Bombay fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers. Zusammenfassung 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 fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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-Ism¿'¿lism; 6. A theology for the mills and dockyards; 7. Bombay Islam in the ocean's southern city.

Product details

• Authors: Nile Green, Nile (University of California Green, Green Nile
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521769242
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76924-2
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Islam, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, RELIGION / Islam / General, HISTORY / Social History, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Asian History, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Asia / South / India