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- ISBN 9780198903321
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jul 2024
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics—Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.
Nandagopal R. Menon is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", University of Münster, Germany.
