Shi A Islam In Colonial India
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Shi a Islam in Colonial India
Author | : Justin Jones |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2011-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139501231 |
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Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today.
Shi a Islam in Colonial India
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Author | : Justin Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Islam and politics |
ISBN | : 1139113216 |
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"This book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947"--
The Aga Khan Case
Author | : Teena Purohit |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674071582 |
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An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
Community and Consensus in Islam
Author | : Farzana Shaikh |
Publsiher | : Imprintone |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2012-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8188861138 |
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Community and Consensus in Islam, first published in 1989, represented a bold attempt to introduce the role of ideas in the interpretation of Indo-Muslim politics between 1860 and the Partition of India in 1947. It questioned the widely held view at the time that Indian Muslim politics of the period could be explained by reference to pragmatic interests alone. Instead, Farzana Shaikh argued that the influence of ideas rooted in Islamic tradition must form a crucial dimension of any wellgrounded explanation of the determinants of Indo-Muslim political practice. In this masterful study the configurations of colonial politics in India are set against the backdrop of tensions between two contrasting intellectual traditions - the Islamic and the liberal-democratic - to show how their different assumptions about the proper ends of political action sharpened the opposition between diverse constitutional positions that led to Partition. Today it stands as a vital contribution to the debate about this momentous event.
The Shi a in Modern South Asia
Author | : Justin Jones,Ali Usman Qasmi |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2015-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107108905 |
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This book explores various Shi'i communities in the subcontinent as well as South Asian Shi'i diasporas in East Africa.
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
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Author | : Nile Green |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0511534531 |
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A 2009 study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
Author | : Nile Green |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139479240 |
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Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
Communal and Pan Islamic Trends in Colonial India
Author | : Mushirul Hasan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015012851724 |
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Papers presented at two seminars organized by the Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 1979-1980.