A01=Yoginder Sikand
Author_Yoginder Sikand
Category=GTM
Category=JB
Category=JBSR
Category=NHF
Category=QRA
Category=QRP
contemporary Muslim identity India
Dalit Muslim relations
DW
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
IDU
inter-faith
Inter-Faith Relations
interreligious dialogue
Islamic reform movements
minority rights India
ORZO
PX
QD
relations
religious pluralism
Rg
secularism studies
WD
Product details
- ISBN 9780415314862
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament, characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority, is producing new expressions of Islam, some of which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation, and others which call for dialogue, reconciliation and inter-faith harmony.
Yoginder Sikand is presently based at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, The Netherlands as a post-doctoral research scholar. He is the editor of web-magazine www.islaminterfaith.org which is devoted to discussion of issues related to Muslims in South Asia.
