Nile Green: 5 books
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
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 fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as...
The Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down...
Terrains of Exchange
Religious Economies of Global Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a proselytising global brand. Drawing...
Making Space
Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
How could settlement emerge in an early modern 'world on the move'? How did the Sufis imprint their influence on the cultural memory of their communities? Weaving together investigations of architecture, ethnography, local history, and migration, Making Space offers bold new insights into Indian,...
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian...