Everyday Islamic Law And The Making Of Modern South Asia

Author : Elizabeth Lhost
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469668130

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Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Elizabeth Lhost Pdf

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state's authority over personal law and rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, letters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient and challenged the hegemony of the Anglo-Indian legal system. Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life, even beyond colonial courtrooms and the confines of family law. Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.

Author : Elizabeth Lhost
Publisher : Islamic Civilization and Musli
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1469668122

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Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Elizabeth Lhost Pdf

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state's authority over personal law and rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, letters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient and challenged the hegemony of the Anglo-Indian legal system. Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life, even beyond colonial courtrooms and the confines of family law. Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.

Author : Julia Stephens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107173910

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Governing Islam by Julia Stephens Pdf

Stephens argues that encounters between Islam and British colonial rule in South Asia were fundamental to the evolution of modern secularism.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400831388

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Islam in South Asia in Practice by Barbara D. Metcalf Pdf

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

Author : Barbara Daly Metcalf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 069104421X

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Islam in South Asia in Practice by Barbara Daly Metcalf Pdf

An anthology of work from 32 scholars, this volume offers new approaches to understanding the lived experiences of the largest Muslim population in the world.

Author : Filippo Osella,Caroline Osella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107276673

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Islamic Reform in South Asia by Filippo Osella,Caroline Osella Pdf

The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates Sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist – if not altogether demonised as terrorist.

Author : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107154087

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Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia by Soumen Mukherjee Pdf

This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia.

Author : Diane P. Mines,Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253354730

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Everyday Life in South Asia by Diane P. Mines,Sarah Lamb Pdf

An introduction to the peoples and cultures of South Asia

Author : Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Divorce (Islamic law)
ISBN : UOM:39015055926862

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Shariʻa Law and Society by Alamgir Muhammad Serajuddin Pdf

This multidisciplinary study discusses the historical, social and legal contexts of Shari'a law reform in South Asia, their methodology and juristic basis, the debate between the traditionalists and modernists over their legality, the resultant political and social tensions, and their success in improving the social position of Muslim women.

Author : David Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0415554748

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Islam in South Asia by David Taylor Pdf

During the last 100 years there has been extensive English-language writing & research on Islam in South Asia, both by Muslim scholars & by non-Muslims. This volume brings together the most significant & enduring work, most of it published in the past 30 years, but with occasional use of older material.

Author : Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 131743594X

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Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia by Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher Pdf

Author : Mona Oraby
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691250663

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Devotion to the Administrative State by Mona Oraby Pdf

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice Over the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection. They make these appeals both in states with a declared religious identity and in states officially neutral toward religion. In this book, Mona Oraby argues that the pursuit of official recognition by religious minorities amounts to a devotional practice. Countering the prevailing views on secularism, Oraby contends that demands by seemingly marginal groups to have their religious differences recognized by the state in fact assure communal integrity and coherence over time. Making her case, she analyzes more than fifty years of administrative judicial trends, theological discourse, and minority claims-making practices, focusing on the activities of Coptic Orthodox Christians and Baháʼí in modern and contemporary Egypt. Oraby documents the ways that devotion is expressed across a range of sites and sources, including in lawyers’ offices, administrative judicial verdicts, televised media and film, and invitation-only study sessions. She shows how Egypt’s religious minorities navigated the political and legal upheavals of the 2011 uprising and now persevere amid authoritarian repression. In a Muslim-majority state, they assert their status as Islam’s others, finding belonging by affirming their difference; and difference, Oraby argues, is the necessary foundation for collective life. Considering these activities in light of the global history of civil administration and adjudication, Oraby shows that the lengths to which these marginalized groups go to secure their status can help us to reimagine the relationship between law and religion.

Author : David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bakrawallah (Indic people)
ISBN : 1614512469

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Islamization in Modern South Asia by David Emmanuel Singh Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Islamic law
ISBN : OCLC:953655696

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Sharia by Wael B. Hallaq Pdf

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415307872

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Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region. This comprehensive study includes detailed discussions of: the structure and ideology of the British raj; the meaning of subaltern resistance; the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste class, community and gender; and the state and economy, society and politics of post-colonial South Asia The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and adiscussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.