Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17758-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Social Sciences in Asia

Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically ‘legalistic’ and Muslims as uniformly ‘transgressive’ when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history, and an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pirbhai, M Reza

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Translation and Transliteration Note
Maps
Chronology

Introduction

Part I—Foundations: Islam and the Mughals

Chapter One: The Categories of Doctrinal Islam
Chapter Two: Indicism, Intoxication and Sobriety among the ‘Great Mughals’

Part II—Transformations: Islam and Colonialism

Chapter Three: Codification and a ‘New’ Sober Path
Chapter Four: Anglicisation and the ‘Old Islam’
Chapter Five: Objectification and a ‘New’ Intoxicated Way
Chapter Six: Nationalism and the ‘New Islam’

Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

M. Reza Pirbhai, Ph.D. (2004) in History, University of Toronto, is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Louisiana State University. This is his first book. Previous publications include articles on Islam, Hinduism and culture in Modern South Asia.