Reclaiming Karbala

Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-45970-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, formats and literary lineages, Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-19th century through the 1940s. Beginning with an explanation of the tenets of the battle of Karbala, this multi-layered study explores what it means to be Muslim, as well as the nuanced relationship between religion, linguistic identity and literary modernity that marks both Bengaliness and Muslimness in the region.This book is an intervention into the literature on regional Islam in Bengal, offering a complex perspective on the polemic on religion and language in the formation of a jatiya Bengali Muslim identity in a multilingual context. This book, by placing this polemic in the context of intra-Islamic reformist conflict, shows how all these rival reformist groups unanimously negated the Karbala-centric commemorative ritual of Muharram and Shi‘i intercessory piety to secure a pro-Caliphate sensibility as the core value of the Bengali Muslim public sphere.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halder, Epsita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamische Gruppen: Sunniten, Alsalaf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Situating Karbala in Bengal

Chapter 1: Mapping Karbala from orality to print

Chapter 2: Print and Husayn-centric piety

Chapter 3: The Rhetoric of Loss and Recovery: the moment of Muslim jatiya

Chapter 4: The Recovery of the Past: History and Biography

Chapter 5: Literature, Identity and Modernity

Über Autor(innen)

Epsita Halder is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India. She was Visiting Fellow at Max-Weber Kollege, University of Erfurt, Germany, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.