Islam In South Asia Encountering The West Before And After 1857

Author : Mushirul Hasan
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015081835863

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Islam in South Asia: Encountering the West : before and after 1857 by Mushirul Hasan Pdf

This volume, the second in the series Islam in South Asia, introduces certain aspects of India's response to the West. It also includes travel literature which is becoming increasingly important, because cultural theorists treat them as serious little jigsaw puzzles of ethnography, anthropology and social and cultural history. Our contention is that while scholars in the West engage in constructing their epistemology of Islam, it is about time Muslim scholars start constructing their own epistemology of the West by turning to the travel documents that carry us into the wider world and often possess a penetrating quality in them. This volume includes the travelogue of Mirza Abu Taleb, the pioneer travel writer, and Lutfullah. As India celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1857 Revolt, this collection of published essays include some seminal writings by Sayyid Ahmed Khan, the Aligarh reformer, Mirza Ghalib, the Urdu poet, Fazl-i-Haq Khairabadi, the scholar, and Abdul Halim Sharar, the essayist-novelist from Lucknow. Together they capture the trauma of an era. They are essential readings for the understanding of an important era.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Aishwarya Pandit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000410679

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Claiming Citizenship and Nation by Aishwarya Pandit Pdf

The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North India, particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the ‘Congress heartland’ and the threat of revival of ‘Muslim communalism’, alongside issues of representation, property, language politics, rehabilitation and citizenship, politics of Waqf, personal law and Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused government and institutional files, private archives, interviews and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics and society. An important intervention, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of politics, Indian history, minority studies, law, political studies, nationalism, electoral politics, partition studies, political sociology, sociology and South Asian Studies.

Author : Damien Tricoire
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319542805

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Enlightened Colonialism by Damien Tricoire Pdf

This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents, their narratives of progress, and their political aims and strategies, it asks whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new colonialism between 1760 and 1820. Has Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For decades, historians of political thought, philosophy, and literature have debated this question. On one side, many postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped delegitimize non-European cultures. On the other side, some historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at least some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have been “anti-colonialists”. Surprisingly enough, both sides have focused on literary and philosophical texts, but have rarely taken political and social practice into account.

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004422711

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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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : UCBK:C098379748

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Indian Horizons by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786732378

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Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst Pdf

While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders. For India's Muslims their interpretation of the Rebellion as jihad shaped subsequent discourses, definitions and codifications of Islam in the region. Morgenstein Fuerst concludes by demonstrating how these perceptions of jihad, contextualised within the framework of the 19th century Rebellion, continue to influence contemporary rhetoric about Islam and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent.Drawing on extensive primary source analysis, this unique take on Islamic identities in South Asia will be invaluable to scholars working on British colonial history, India and the Raj, as well as to those studying Islam in the region and beyond.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Minorities
ISBN : UCAL:B5173383

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Alpjan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004118020

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Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History by Jamal Malik Pdf

The reciprocal relationship between colonialists and the colonised people of India, during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860, provides fascinating study material. This edited volume explores cultural colonialism by focussing on the ambivalent processes of reciprocal perceptions.

Author : Amit Dey
Publisher : Parul Prakashani Private Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9789385555671

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Islam in South Asia: by Amit Dey Pdf

Scholarly, insightful and, at the same time, written in an exceptionally lucid style, this book challenges certain stereotypes relating to Islam, Sufism, folk songs and inter community relations in the South Asian context. By consulting Persian, Urdu, Bengali and English sources, this book suggests that Sufism is more heterogeneous and complex than what is commonly taken to be.

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004168596

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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).

Author : John Ghazvinian,Arthur Mitchell Fraas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350109520

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American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 by John Ghazvinian,Arthur Mitchell Fraas Pdf

American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 challenges the prevailing assumption that when we talk about "American and Muslim worlds", we are talking about two conflicting entities that came into contact with each other in the 20th century. Instead, this book shows there is a long and deep seam of history between the two which provides an important context for contemporary events -- and is also important in its own right. Some of the earliest American Muslims were the African slaves working in the plantations of the Carolinas and Latin America. Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder himself, was frequently called an "infidel" and suspected of hidden Muslim sympathies by his opponents. Whether it was the sale of American commodities in Central Asia, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in American fiction, the uprisings of enslaved Muslims in Brazil, or the travels of American missionaries in the Middle East, there was no shortage of opportunities for Muslims and inhabitants of the Americas to meet, interact and shape one another from an early period.

Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495646

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England Re-Oriented by Humberto Garcia Pdf

Between 1750 and 1857, westward-bound Central and South Asian travelers connected imperial Britain to Persian Indo-Eurasia by performing queer masculinities.

Author : Chiara Formichi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106123

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Islam and Asia by Chiara Formichi Pdf

An accessible, transregional exploration of how Islam and Asia have shaped each other's histories, societies and cultures from the seventh century to today.

Author : S. Akbar Zaidi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108490535

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Making a Muslim by S. Akbar Zaidi Pdf

Post 1857, colonial India witnessed the emergence of numerous new forms of Muslim identities, some emerging as new Islamic 'sects' (maslaks), and others based on educational priorities. This book critically examines, how a feeling of utter humiliation - zillat - acted as an agentive force allowing Muslims to remake their many identities.