Islamization In Modern South Asia

Author : David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614511854

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Islamization in Modern South Asia by David Emmanuel Singh Pdf

This book explores the religious identity of the indigenous Gujjars living in Rajaji National Park (RNP), Uttarakhand, India. In the broader context of forest conservation discourse, steps taken by the local government to relocate the Gujjars outside RNP have been crucial in their choice to associate with NGOs and Deobandi Muslims. These intersecting associations constitute the context of their transitioning religious identity. The book presents a rich account of the actual process of Islamization through the collaborative agency of Deobandi madrasas and Tablighi Jama‘at. Based on documents and interviews collected over four years, it constructs a particular case of Deobandi reform and also balances this with a layered description of the Gujjar responses. It argues that in their association with the Deobandis, the Gujjars internalized the normative dimensions of beliefs and practices but not at the expense of their traditional Hindu-folk culture. This capacity for adaptation bodes well for the Gujjars, but their proper integration with wider society seems assured only in association with the Deobandis. Consequently this research also points toward the role of Islam in integrating marginal groups in the wider context of society in South Asia.

Author : Robert W. Hefner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780824832803

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Making Modern Muslims by Robert W. Hefner Pdf

When students from a Muslim boarding school were convicted for the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali, Islamic schools in Southeast Asia became the focus of intense international scrutiny. Some analysts have warned that these schools are being turned into platforms for violent jihadism. Making Modern Muslims is the first book to look comparatively at Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. Based on a two-year research project by leading scholars of Southeast Asian Islam, the book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines. The studies demonstrate that the great majority of schools have nothing to do with violence but are undergoing changes that have far-reaching implications for democracy, gender relations, pluralism, and citizenship. Making Modern Muslims offers an important reassessment of Muslim culture and politics in Southeast Asia and provides insights into the changing nature of state-society relations from the late colonial period to the present. It allows us to better appreciate the astonishing dynamism of Islamization in Southeast Asia and the struggle for Muslim hearts and minds taking place today. Timely and readable, this volume will be of great interest to teachers and specialists of Islam and Southeast Asia as well as the general reader seeking to understand the great transformations at work in the Muslim world. Contributors: Esmael A. Abdula, Bjørn Atle Blengsli, Joseph Chinyong Liow, Robert W. Hefner, Richard G. Kraince, Thomas M. McKenna.

Author : Justin Jones,Ali Usman Qasmi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108905

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The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia by Justin Jones,Ali Usman Qasmi Pdf

This book explores various Shi'i communities in the subcontinent as well as South Asian Shi'i diasporas in East Africa.

Author : Michel Boivin,Remy Delage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317380009

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Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia by Michel Boivin,Remy Delage Pdf

The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society. The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. Inspired by new advances in the field of ritual and pilgrimage studies, the book demonstrates that religious gatherings are spaces of negotiation and redefinitions of religious identity and of the notion of sainthood. Drawing from a large corpus of vernacular and colonial sources, as well as the register of popular literature and ethnographic observation, the authors describe how religious identities are co-constructed through the management of rituals, and are constantly renegotiated through discourses and religious practices. By enabling students, researchers and academics to critically understand the complexity of religious places within the world of popular and devotional Islam, this geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies.

Author : André Wink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3884311

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Islam, Politics, and Society in South Asia by André Wink Pdf

"Sponsored by the Italian National Research Council (CNR - Committee 9)"--T.p. verso."This volume contains the proceedings of Panel 4 ('Islam, Politics, and Society in South Asia') of the 10th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies held at Venice from 28 September to 1 October 1988"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Hussin Mutalib
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812307583

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Islam in Southeast Asia by Hussin Mutalib Pdf

Islam is a major religion in Southeast Asia, with Indonesian Muslims comprising the largest Muslim population in the world. Events and developments since 11 September 2001 have added greater attention to Islam and its adherents in this part of the world. This general survey of Islam in Southeast Asia is intended to inform, explain and update readers about the more significant aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia, then and now. These include the following: the geographical origins and sources by which the faith spread in this region; the social, economic and political profiles of the Muslim communities; relations between Muslims and non-Muslims and between Muslims and the State; the strands and trends that shapes the role of Islam and the Muslims in the national body politic; and the challenges confronting Muslims in confronting the vicissitudes of their lives in this era of rapid change, characterized by modernization, capitalism, secularization and globalization. The discussion will begin with an overview of the broad picture of Islam and the Muslims in the region as a whole, covering both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries. This will be followed by case-study analysis of Islam and the Muslims in individual countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Given the difficulty of writing on such a complex and contentious topic, this book attempts to present the subject matter in a manner that is sufficiently objective to scholars and yet simple and accessible enough to be readily understood by ordinary readers.

Author : Md Nazrul Islam,Md Saidul Islam
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030429096

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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.

Author : Asim Roy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114407880

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Islam in History and Politics by Asim Roy Pdf

"This volume discusses the meanings of Islam, the Muslim community, and the changing nature of Muslim consciousness, from colonial to contemporary times in South Asia."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817824537X

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The Muslim World in Modern South Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deepra Dandekar,Torsten Tschacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317435952

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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.

Author : Asim Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015040664941

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Islam in South Asia by Asim Roy Pdf

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Soumen Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Soumen Mukherjee (Assistant Professor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 1316871037

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Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia by Soumen Mukherjee (Assistant Professor) Pdf

"Explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in modern South Asia and traces the genealogies of conceptual categories and institutions that conditioned the historical process"--

Author : K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9812302832

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Islam in Southeast Asia by K S Nathan,Mohammad Hashim Kamali Pdf

Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.