Robinson The Muslim World in Modern South Asia

Power, Authority, Knowledge
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8303-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 419 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Transliteration
Glossary

Introduction

1. The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance

2. Global History from an Islamic Angle

3. Education in the Muslim World to the End of the Eighteenth Century

4. On How Since 1800 Islamic Societies Have Been Built from Below

5. Crisis of Authority: Crisis of Islam?

6. Strategies of Authority in Muslim South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

7. Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia

8. Iranian Influences on South Asia

9. South Asia and West Asia from the Delhi Sultanate to the Present: Security, Resources and Influence

10. The Memory of Power, Muslim 'Political Importance' and the Muslim League

11. The Modern State: Citizenship, Multiculturalism and Globalisation

12. What Ralph Russell Meant and Means to Me

13. Love on the Roof

14. Hunting the Tiger

15. The Garden of the Eight Paradises

16. Uses for Grass

17. The Muslim Commander Bond

18. Aromatherapy

19. Love of Mahal

20. Cosmopolis of a Shared Worldview

21. In Reverse

22. Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francis Robinson is Professor of the History of South Asia at Royal Holloway, University of London. His many books include Islam and Muslim History in South Asia; The 'Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in South Asia; and Islam, South Asia, and the West.