Author : Asim Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015040664941
Islam in South Asia
Asim Roy
Islam In South Asia
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Lived Islam in South Asia
Imtiaz Ahmad,Helmut Reifeld
Author : Imtiaz Ahmad,Helmut Reifeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351384322
Lived Islam in South Asia by Imtiaz Ahmad,Helmut Reifeld Pdf
South Asia is probably the largest area in the world where Islam exists within a mixed composite culture, overlapping with several other religions. No matter how many origins of political conflicts one may find in the domain of culture and religion, there are, at the same time, elements of peaceful co-existence as well.
Islam in South Asia
Jamal Malik
Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004168596
Islam in South Asia by Jamal Malik Pdf
Islamic South Asia has become a focal point in academia. Where did Muslims come from? How did they fare in interacting with Hindu cultures? How did they negotiate identity as ruling and ruled minorities and majorities? Part I covers early Muslim expansion and the formative phase in context of initial cultural encounter (app. 700-1300). Part II views the establishment of Muslim empire, cultures oscillating between Islamic and Islamicate, centralised and regionalised power (app. 1300-1700). Part III is composed in the backdrop of regional centralisation, territoriality and colonial rule, displaying processes of integration and differentiation of Muslim cultures in colonial setting (app. 1700-1930). Tensions between Muslim pluralism and singularity evolving in public sphere make up the fourth cluster (app. 1930-2002).
Islamic Civilization in South Asia
Burjor Avari
Author : Burjor Avari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415580618
Islamic Civilization in South Asia by Burjor Avari Pdf
Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as the general reader, with a comprehensive account of the history of Islam in India, encompassing political, socio-economic, cultural and intellectual aspects. Using a chronological framework, the book discusses the main events in each period between c. 600 CE and the present day, along with the key social and cultural themes. It discusses a range of topics, including: How power was secured, and how was it exercised The crisis of confidence caused by the arrival of the West in the sub-continent How the Indo-Islamic synthesis in various facets of life and culture came about Excerpts at the end of each chapter allow for further discussion, and detailed maps alongside the text help visualise the changes through each time period. Introducing the reader to the issues concerning the Islamic past of South Asia, the book is a useful text for students and scholars of South Asian History and Religious Studies.
Islam in South Asia in Practice
Barbara D. Metcalf
Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400831388
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.
Islam and Democracy in South Asia
Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam
Author : Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030429096
Islam and Democracy in South Asia by Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam Pdf
Grounded in the Weberian tradition, Islam and Democracy in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh presents a critical analysis of the complex relationship between Islam and democracy in South Asia and Bangladesh. The book posits that Islam and democracy are not necessarily incompatible, but that the former has a contributory role in the development of the latter. Islam came to Bengal largely by Sufis and missionaries through peaceful means and hence a moderate form of this religion got rooted in the society. Both militant Islam and militant secularism are equal threats to democracy and pluralism. Like democracy, political Islam has many faces. Political Islam adhering to democratic norms and practices, what the authors call “democratic Islamism,” unlike “militant Islamism,” is not anti-democratic. The book shows that the suppression of democracy and human rights creates avenues for the consolidation of militant Islamism, orthodox Islam, and “Islamic” terrorism, while the “fair play” of democracy results in the decline of anti-democratic form of political Islam.
Being Muslim in South Asia
Robin Jeffrey,Ronojoy Sen
Author : Robin Jeffrey,Ronojoy Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0198092067
Being Muslim in South Asia by Robin Jeffrey,Ronojoy Sen Pdf
What experiences and practices characterize the lives of Muslims in South Asia today? This book examines the contests of ideas, begun 150 years ago, that have translated into political actions touching the lives of tens of millions. Equally, the book focuses on aspects of daily life to emphasize that there are diverse ways of being Muslim. The book is an essential tool for anyone interested in the lives and futures of South Asia's 500 million Muslims.
Islam in South Asia
Jamal Malik
Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004422711
Islam in South Asia by Jamal Malik Pdf
Jamal Malik provides new insights into the social and intellectual history of the complex forms of cultural articulation among Muslims in South Asia from the seventh to twenty-first century, elaborating on various trends and tendencies in a highly plural setting.
Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
Neilesh Bose
Author : Neilesh Bose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317503446
Culture and Power in South Asian Islam by Neilesh Bose Pdf
This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia, outside of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are, in some cases taken both from literal regions rarely noticed within discussions of South Asian Islam, such as Sri Lanka, Bengal, and Tamil Nadu. In other contributions the perspectives draw on historiographic interventions about the role of fakīrs in South Asian history, qasbahs in South Asian history, and the role of Aligarh students within the Pakistan movement. As a collection of voices aimed at stimulating debate about the range and diversity of South Asian Islam, the book probes meanings and markers of categories like "Indic," "Islamicate," and "local" or "global" Islam within the context of South Asia. Relevant to debates in the history of South Asia as well as Islamic studies, this collection will serve as a reference point for discussions about South Asian Islam as well as the nature and role of vernacularization as a cultural process. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi
Author : Iftikhar Dadi
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807895962
Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia by Iftikhar Dadi Pdf
This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments. Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks at the stunningly diverse artistic production of key artists associated with Pakistan, including Abdur Rahman Chughtai, Zainul Abedin, Shakir Ali, Zubeida Agha, Sadequain, Rasheed Araeen, and Naiza Khan. Dadi shows how, beginning in the 1920s, these artists addressed the challenges of modernity by translating historical and contemporary intellectual conceptions into their work, reworking traditional approaches to the classical Islamic arts, and engaging the modernist approach towards subjective individuality in artistic expression. In the process, they dramatically reconfigured the visual arts of the region. By the 1930s, these artists had embarked on a sustained engagement with international modernism in a context of dizzying social and political change that included decolonization, the rise of mass media, and developments following the national independence of India and Pakistan in 1947. Bringing new insights to such concepts as nationalism, modernism, cosmopolitanism, and tradition, Dadi underscores the powerful impact of transnationalism during this period and highlights the artists' growing embrace of modernist and contemporary artistic practice in order to address the challenges of the present era.
Jews and Muslims in South Asia
Yulia Egorova
Author : Yulia Egorova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199856237
Jews and Muslims in South Asia by Yulia Egorova Pdf
Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have both been seen as the ultimate "other." At the same time, Western politics and media construct Jews and Muslims in opposition to each other and see their relationship as unavoidably polarized due to the conflict in the Middle East. In this book, Yulia Egorova explores how South Asian Jews and Muslims relate to each other outside of a Western and Christian context, and reveals that despite some important differences this relationship is still intrinsically connected to global narratives about Jews and Muslims. She also shows that the Hindu right have turned South Asian Jewish experiences into a rhetorical tool to deny the existence of discrimination against religious minorities, and that this ostensible celebration of Jewishness masks not only anti-Muslim, but also anti-Jewish prejudice. She argues that South Asia inherited these notions of racial and religious difference from the British during the colonial period, which continue to cause stigmatization and oppression to this day. Jews and Muslims in South Asia is a fascinating new contribution to the academic discussion on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and their overlapping histories.
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia
Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Author : Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317435952
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia by Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher Pdf
This book looks at the study of ideas, practices and institutions in South Asian Islam, commonly identified as ‘Sufism’, and how they relate to politics in South Asia. While the importance of Sufism for the lives of South Asian Muslims has been repeatedly asserted, the specific role played by Sufism in contestations over social and political belonging in South Asia has not yet been fully analysed. Looking at examples from five countries in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan), the book begins with a detailed introduction to political concerns over ‘belonging’ in relation to questions concerning Sufism and Islam in South Asia. This is followed with sections on Producing and Identifying Sufism; Everyday and Public Forms of Belonging; Sufi Belonging, Local and National; and Intellectual History and Narratives of Belonging. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the book explores the connection of Islam, Sufism and the Politics of Belonging in South Asia. It is an important contribution to South Asian Studies, Islamic Studies and South Asian Religion.
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora
Claire Chambers,Caroline Herbert
Author : Claire Chambers,Caroline Herbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317654124
Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora by Claire Chambers,Caroline Herbert Pdf
Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the ‘South Asian Muslim’ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and particularly since the events of September 11, 2001. Here we find the first book-length critical analysis of these representations of Muslims from South Asia and its diaspora in literature, the media, culture and cinema. Contributors contextualize these depictions against the burgeoning post-9/11 artistic interest in Islam, and also against cultural responses to earlier crises on the subcontinent such as Partition (1947), the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and secession of Bangladesh, the 1992 Ayodhya riots , the 2002 Gujarat genocide and the Kashmir conflict. Offering a comparative approach, the book explores connections between artists’ generic experimentalism and their interpretations of life as Muslims in South Asia and its diaspora, exploring literary and popular fiction, memoir, poetry, news media, and film. The collection highlights the diversity of representations of Muslims and the range of approaches to questions of Muslim religious and cultural identity, as well as secular discourse. Essays by leading scholars in the field highlight the significant role that literature, film, and other cultural products such as music can play in opening up space for complex reflections on Muslim identities and cultures, and how such imaginative cultural forms can enable us to rethink secularism and religion. Surveying a broad range of up-to-date writing and cultural production, this concise and pioneering critical analysis of representations of South Asian Muslims will be of interest to students and academics of a variety of subjects including Asian Studies, Literary Studies, Media Studies, Women’s Studies, Contemporary Politics, Migration History, Film studies, and Cultural Studies.
Islam in Southeast Asia
Norshahril Saat
Author : Norshahril Saat
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789814786997
Islam in Southeast Asia by Norshahril Saat Pdf
"Islam in the Malay world of Southeast Asia or Islam Nusantara, as it has come to be known, had for a long time been seen as representing the more spiritual and Sufi dimension of Islam, thereby striking a balance between the exoteric and the esoteric. This image of 'the smiling face of Islam' has been disturbed during the last decades with increasing calls for the implementation of Shari’ah, conceived of in a narrow manner, intolerant discourse against non-Muslim communities, and hate speech against minority Muslims such as the Shi’ites. There has also been what some have referred to as the Salafization of Sunni Muslims in the region. The chapters of this volume are written by scholars and activists from the region who are very perceptive of such trends in Malay world Islam and promise to improve our understanding of developments that are sometimes difficult to grapple with." — Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
Elizabeth Lhost
Author : Elizabeth Lhost
Publisher : Islamic Civilization and Musli
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1469668122
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.