Islam in South Asia in Practice
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Ahmadiyya
Ajmer
Akbar
Allah
Barbara D. Metcalf
Bhakti
Brahmin
Caliphate
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Dargah
Deobandi
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Fatwa
God
Hadith
Hanafi
Hindu
Humility
Ibn Battuta
Ideology
Infidel
Intercession
Islam
Islamic culture
Islamic schools and branches
Islamism
Kafir
Madrasa
Martyr
Mohd. Ahmed Khan v. Shah Bano Begum
Mosque
Mufti
Muhammad
Muslim
Muslim world
Naqshbandi
North India
Pakistan
Peace be upon him
Piety
Poetry
Politics
Prayer
Precedent
Princeton University Press
Qawwali
Quran
Recitation
Religion
Religious text
Sanskrit
Sayyid
Sermon
Shah Jalal
Sharia
Sheikh
Shirk (Islam)
Sikh
South Asia
Sufism
Sunnah
Sunni Islam
Supplication
Surah
Syed Ahmad Khan
Tablighi Jamaat
Tariqa
The Sufis
Theology
Ulama
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691044200
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.
Barbara D. Metcalf is president-elect of the American Historical Association. She is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis, and most recently has taught at the University of Michigan. She is the author of "Islamic Revival in British India" and the coauthor of "A Concise History of Modern India".
