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Taqiyya and Identity in a South Asian Community

Shafique N. Virani
Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 99–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810002974
Published: 01 February 2011
...Shafique N. Virani Abstract The Guptīs of Bhavnagar, India, represent an unexplored case of taqiyya , or precautionary dissimulation, and challenge traditional categories of religious identity in South Asia. Taqiyya is normally practiced by minority or otherwise disadvantaged groups of Muslims who...
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A Socio-lntellectual History of the Isnā Asbarī Shi īs in India . Vol. 1: Seventh to Sixteenth Century; Vol. 2: Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century

Michael H. Fisher
Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (1): 209–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2057740
Published: 01 February 1989
...) for "concealment from enemies and unreliable friends" (1:66). Because many Shfls also underwent persecution for their faith, they too often practiced taqiyya, "prudent concealment or dispensation from religious duties under compulsion of threat or injury" (2:445), in order to pass as members of the majority SunnI...
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Editorial Foreword

JNW
Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911810003037
Published: 01 February 2011
... of cultural translation in modern times. The issue's article section ends with two essays that move to the other side of the Himalayas. The first, S hafique n. virani 's “ Taqiyya and Identity in a South Asian Community,” is a study of obfuscated religious identities. Specifically, it highlights...
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Mystical Responses to the Predatory State: Shia Imams and Sufi Shaikhs in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions - The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation and The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizam-u'd-Din Auliya and The Shrine and Cult of Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer

Thomas Gibson
Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1397–1400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911808001824
Published: 01 November 2008
... and a half centuries between the fall of Alamut and the rise of Anjudan as an Ismaili center are the subject of Shafique N. Virani's book. He faces formidable obstacles in his task, as taqiyya (precautionary dissimulation of one's true beliefs), satr (concealment of the living imam), and kitman...
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