{"product_id":"intra-muslim-polemics-in-south-india","title":"Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India","description":"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.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54229095317848,"sku":"9780198903321","price":88.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198903321.jpg?v=1778528730","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/intra-muslim-polemics-in-south-india","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}