{"product_id":"the-languages-of-political-islam-in-india-1200-1800","title":"The Languages of Political Islam in India :  1200 - 1800","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Muzaffar Alam\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Permanent Black\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2008\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 244\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8178242230\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows the ways in which political Islam, from its establishment in medieval north India, adapted itself to a variety of indigenous contexts and became deeply Indianized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis process, by which preexistent Arabo-Persian traditions were molded to new Indian contexts, involved changes in the manner in which Islamic rule was conceived and conducted in the subcontinent. It became gradually apparent to the conquering Muslim sultans (and Later to their successors, the Mughals), as well as to medieval thinkers and writers of treatises on Islamic morality, theology, and political doctrine, that the conduct of Islamic statecraft in a country comprising mostly Hindus entailed shifts in Islam's conceptual and institutional vocabulary. Islamic rulers could not command a vast country without accepting certain cultural limitations to the exercise of their power. In this process of acculturation, political Islam in India was forced to reinvent itself as a doctrine of rule.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this stemmed a second change: a shift in the meanings of key Islamic terms, especially those pertaining to statehood, and in relations between rulers and subject populations. Through a close reading of a variety of texts, Muzaffar Alam shows that the vocabularies in use went through certain changes so fundamental that the language of Indian Islam became quite different from what was in vogue in contexts outside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its profound deployment of primary and secondary sources to study Indo-Muslim statecraft vis-à-vis Islamic theocratic languages over an eight-hundred-year stretch, this book provides major insights into the changing nature of political Islam in India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShari’a, Akhlaq and Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sufi Intervention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanguage and Power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpposition and Reaffirmation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcluding remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Muzaffar Alam \/ Permanent Black \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153802457456,"sku":"24048","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/24048.jpg?v=1793914316","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-languages-of-political-islam-in-india-1200-1800","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}