{"product_id":"islamic-contestations-essays-on-muslims-in-india-and-pakistan","title":"Islamic Contestations-Essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Barbara D Metcalf\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 365\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195666666\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays written over the last quarter of a century represents a distinguished body of writing on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent. They draw on a lifetime of research and writing on a rich, important and often neglected subject and focus on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent and the role of Islamic symbols and identities in public life in northern India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays are united in the challenge they offer to the negative stereotypes that are current, for example, that Islam is inevitably politically militant, that Muslim women are particularly oppressed, or that Islam is a static tradition. The essays show the Islamic scholars of India and Pakistan as people engaged with issues of the modern world, pragmatically driven in their socio-political activities and not as blind reactionaries, as they are often described.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the colonial period and after 1947 in India as well, here has been an absence, for the most part, of anything that could be labeled Islamic politics or movements for an Islamic state. Instead, there is wide evidence of a firm commitment to democratic secularism and a-political spiritual renewal. The emergence of jihad-oriented movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan at the turn of the twenty-first century should not eclipse what have been more enduring and more pervasive patterns of Islamic activity in South Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor should they distract from the other activities of the Muslims of the subcontinent like those discussed here, including the education of girls and boys, moral and spiritual guidance on the part of the holy men, the cultivation of Greco-Arabic medicine, poetry, and the production of pilgrimage accounts about Mecca. What remains constant in all of these diverse essays is the focus on individual Muslim lives, which gives this volume the feel of a vibrant oral history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection will be of interest to scholars and students of modern South Asian history, and specifically of modern Islam. General readers interested in learning more about the cultural and political life of the world’s largest Muslim population-that of the Indian subcontinent-will also find this collection absorbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNEW ROLES, NEW CONTESTATIONS, FOR THE ULAMA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Madrasa at Deoband\u003cbr\u003eA Model for Religious Education in Modern India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo Fatwas on Hajj in British India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Past in the Present\u003cbr\u003eInstruction, Pleasure, and Blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya’s Aap Biitii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE VARIETY OF ISLAMIC CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIFE TO 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading and Writing about Muslim \u003cbr\u003eWomen in British India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNationalist Muslims in British India\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Hakim Ajmal Khan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHakim Ajmal Khan\u003cbr\u003eRais of Delhi and Muslim Leader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNationalism, Modernity, and Muslim Identity in India before 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISLAM AND POLITICS POST-1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToo Little and Too Much\u003cbr\u003eReflections on Muslims in the History of India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIslamic Arguments in Contemporary Pakistan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraditionalist Islamic Activism\u003cbr\u003eDeoband, Tablighis, and Talibs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISLAM, SOCIETY, AND THE IMAGINATION OF THE SELF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflections on Iqbal’s Mosque\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pilgrimage Remembered\u003cbr\u003eSouth Asian Accounts of the Hajj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Happened in Mecca\u003cbr\u003eMumtaz Mufti’s Labbaik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrating Lives\u003cbr\u003eA Mughal Empress, A French Nabob, A Nationalist Muslim Intellectual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Barbara D Metcalf \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153586057584,"sku":"12887","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/12887.jpg?v=1793911357","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/islamic-contestations-essays-on-muslims-in-india-and-pakistan","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}