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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 203–208.
Published: 01 May 2020
...A. Azfar Moin Abstract Why did Shahab Ahmed treat Islam as a puzzle to solve in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic? Moin examines this question in light of the historical changes that gave shape to the milieu that Ahmed refers to as the Bengal-to-Balkans complex. Copyright ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 198–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
... is the Muslim subject foregrounded in this book, and what are this Muslim's political and theological commitments? (3) What relations of power are embedded in the elevation of the “Balkans-to-Bengal complex” as the normative temporal-geographic entity? As I read him, Ahmed asks “What is Islam?” and poses...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 195–198.
Published: 01 May 2020
... scholar, one who died all too soon. But what does the book, and specifically its key notion of the Balkans-to-Bengal complex, amount to politically? To say it differently, what are the politics of the alternative hermeneutic that Ahmed proposes for interpreting the fecundity of Islam vis-à-vis the myriad...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 May 2020
... book with a deep alienation with both Western academic and globalized contemporary discussions of Islam rather than with nostalgia per se. Moin adds a note of caution nevertheless. His worry is that the emphasis on acculturation and accommodation in the Balkans to Bengal from the thirteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 211–214.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the rich life of the Balkans-to-Bengal complex, but he also says in various places that he wants to retain the human/nonhuman binary. Were he here with us, I would like to push him on that—push him to reject that binary too, as overly constraining on our effort to make visible what is Islamic—or what...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 214–219.
Published: 01 May 2020
... on the vibrant writing and art produced by premodern Muslim men across roughly five centuries (1350–1850), several languages, and a geographic area Ahmed terms the “Balkans-to-Bengal complex” (73). 2 Ahmed's intellectual arsenal includes the “un-orthodoxizing” Ottoman intellectual Katib Celebi (d. 1657), who...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 332–344.
Published: 01 August 2007
.... A com-
and created foreign capitulations in which alien parison between Egypt and Bengal, or between
residents were afforded special legal and politi- the Vilayet of Mosul and the Punjab, might actu-
cal status. British India was subject to a fi erce ally be more effective for many purposes than...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 558–560.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 560–562.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 562–565.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 565–567.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 567–569.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 570–571.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 571–573.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 573–574.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., had no choice but to devise
nacular. This is especially remarkable in a region their own theater.
like Bengal, where not only many of the debates This process was not always as progressive...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 249–253.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Muslims lived, affirming its editor Rashid Rida's global acclaim. Vigorous publication activity in the “Balkans to Bengal complex” 5 was crucial in imagining the modern Muslim world and its predicaments. Yet, the actors in the multivocal inter-Islamic networks were informed by their own social...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 10–15.
Published: 01 August 1996
... communities under a secular and
lidity of any ethnic or regional ties to which an Indian democratic dispensation of the political system was to
Muslim might adhere. For example, he divided the be ruled out as Muslims were to live under the rules
population of Bengal among Bengalis and Muslims...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 May 1997
... a
Uhmof Deoband, Punjab and Bengal were conspicu- Muslim king or ruler of any country nor was he inde-
ous by their absence.* pendent, being a pensioner of Baybars, the Mamluk
The principled position of the Barelvi on this issue ruler. Under these circumstances...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 208–210.
Published: 01 May 2020
... it to the Muslims worldwide. 7 In What Is Islam? Ahmed tells us that the influence of the hadith and fiqh discourses was limited throughout the Muslim societies and even marginal in the “Balkans-to-Bengal complex,” where the “Sufi-philosophical amalgam” dominated until recently. Here Ahmed turns around...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 398–417.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . Ahmad Aziz . “Sayyid Ahmad Khān, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghān, and Muslim India.” Studia Islamica 13 ( 1960 ): 55 – 78 . Ahmed Rafiuddin . The Bengal Muslims, 1871–1906: A Quest for Identity . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . Ākhundzādah Fath ‘Alī . Maktūbāt-i Mīrzā...
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