Search Results for Islam in India

... on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York : Verso , 2006 . Ansari Hamid . “ Vice-President Releases a Book on Qasbahs .” Janta Ka Reporter , July 21 , 2015 . www.jantakareporter.com/india/vice-president-releases-a-book-on-qasbahs-locale-everyday-islam-and-modernity/7584 . Bang...

....” In Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia , edited by Pollock Sheldon , 131 – 90 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2003 . ———. The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200–1800 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . Ali Daud...

... University (New Delhi). He has authored The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India, 1707–1748 (1986), and The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200–1800 (2004), as well as co-edited The Mughal State (1998) with Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Tuska Benes received a BA in History from Wellesley College...

... War II, Mahmooda Rizvia, a prominent Urdu author in Sindh, published over a dozen Urdu books dealing with travel, natural history, and Islam. Rizvia lived in the province of Sindh, a Muslim majority province in the northwestern corner of British India that straddles the Indus River and is now part...

... policy which can be partly explained by a distinctive factor: the commitment of the post–General Zia state (or part of it) to a militant version of Islam. Pakistan owes its being to Islam. In August, 1947, the eastern border of the new state was opened to the flow of Muslim refugees from India. Even...

... of Muslim Universalism.” Islamic Studies 8 , no. 2 ( 1969 ): 97 – 114 . Dietrich Reetz . Islam in the Public Sphere: Religious Groups in India, 1900–1947 . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2006 . Eaton Richard . The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 . Berkeley...

...): (Islamic State) (Lahore: Islamic Publications, 2000). 14. For a discussion of India’s religious politics, see  Unionlessness is greater than Union. Union  Barbara Metcalf, “Reinventing Islamic Politics in In- 16. For an elaboration on Maududi’s ideas...

... of challenging the imperial hegemony of the English language. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Iran India Persian nationalism Islam Zoroastrianism This article was presented at the “After the Persianate: Cultural Heritage and National Transformation in Modern Iran and India” conference...

...” ( shirk ) and “innovation” ( bid‘at ) for Islam's “revival” ( tajdīd ). Under the name Tariqa-yi Muhammadiya, the Prophetic Path, Ahmad's group sprang into jihad against the Sikh kingdom after returning to India. In 1831, their army was defeated at the northwestern frontier, yet, as martyrs, Ahmad...

... Fath ‘Alī Ākhundzādah . Tehran [?] : Intishārāt-i Mard-i Imrūz , 1985 . Alam Muzaffar . Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200–1800 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2004 . Algar Hamid . “Malkum Khān, Ākhūndzāda, and the Proposed Reform of the Arabic Alphabet...

...Firoozeh Papan-Matin `Ayn al-Qudat (AD 1096/98–1131) was a significant scholar of Islamic mysticism whose teachings inspired others and especially the early Chishti mystics of India. This article discusses the importance of `Ayn al-Qudat through an analysis of his work and his reception by medieval...

...Nile Green Through a detailed examination of the emergence of printing in Iran, this essay argues that the diffusion of printing through Islamic Asia in the early 1820s took place as part of a printing global revolution initiated by the mass production of iron handpresses of the kind invented...

..., Pers­ ian and Urdu have come to be assoc­ i­ated largely with Islam and Mus­lims, a sit­u­at­ion that has recently height­ened in India with the rise of reli­gious nation­ al­ism.13 In this con­text, Alakhdhari s pro­ject offers a glimpse of an overlooked phe­nom­e­non namely, the role of Urdu print...

... in the special section “The Past for Pakistan” explore Pakistan's tormented relationship with history each in its own way, and whether this past is given the name of India or Islam. If Salma Siddique writes about the undecidability of origins in cinematic culture, Shruti Kapila demonstrates how Pakistan...

... academic circles, from the First World War until the end of the 1920s, when the brothers left Berlin. The main focus is on their involvement in debates on Islam and on India in various scholarly disciplines. Thus, the article looks at the intellectual networks of these two Indian Muslims to shed light...

...Jazmin Graves Eyssallenne Abstract The Islamic devotional tradition of Sidis, Indians of East African ancestry, in Gujarat and Mumbai in western India involves the performance of devotional songs. These songs constitute an oral archive that the Sidi community has preserved over generations...

... transnational religious movements heresy Islam British India This essay has greatly benefited from feedback provided by participants at the Comparative Research Workshop at Yale University and the mini-conference “Capitalism, the Politics of Inequality, and Historical Change” at the annual meeting...

...) . Delhi : Maktaba Jamia , 1996 . ———. The Repentance of Nussooh (Taubatal-Nasûh): The Tale of a Muslim Family a Hundred Years Ago . Edited by Naim C. M. and translated by Kempson M. . Delhi : Permanent Black , 2004 . Alam Muzaffar . Languages of Political Islam, India, 1200...

... Political Islam: India 1200–1800 (London: Hurst and Co., 2004); Veer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993). 3 Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occi- “Only in the West does science exist at a stage of devel...

...-­Hindu King in Islamic India) illus- ing space of freedom of thought. trate the mechanisms of censorship. These bans led to protests, and subsequently the High Court Pluralization of Institutional Spaces in Maharashtra overturned the ban on Laine’s In the Indian context, one discovers the wide...