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Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915
Nile Green is Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA, where he holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History. His ten monographs include Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (Norton, 2024); How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale, 2022, which won the Bentley Prize in World History from the World History Association and was a Foreign Affairs Book of the Year); The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London (Princeton, 2015); Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean (Cambridge, 2012, which won the Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association and the Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association for Asian Studies); and Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction.