{"product_id":"bombay-islam-9781107627796","title":"Bombay Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769012879703,"sku":"9781107627796","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107627796.jpg?v=1758719338","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bombay-islam-9781107627796","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}