| Description |
1 online resource (535 pages) |
| Contents |
The equivocal history of a Muslim reformation / Faisal Devji -- Islamic reform and modernities in South Asia / Francis Robinson -- Reform Sufism in South Asia / Pnina Werbner -- Breathing in India, c. 1890 / Nile Green -- The enemy within: Madras and Muslim identity in North India / Arshad Alam -- Islamism and reform in Kerala, South India / Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella -- Piety as politics amongst Muslim women in contemporary Sri Lanka / Farzana Haniffa -- The changing perception of three Muslim men on the question of saint worship over a 10-year period in Gujarat, Western India / Edward Simpson -- Women, politics, and Islamism in Northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden -- Violence, reconstruction, and Islamic reform: studies from the Muslim "ghetto" / Rubina Jasani -- Reading the Qurʼan in Bangladesh: the politics of belief among Islamic women / Maimuna Huq -- "Cracks in the mightiest fortress": Jamaat-e-Islami's changing discourse on women / Irfan Ahmad -- Islamic feminism in India: Indian Muslim women activists and the reform of Muslim personal law / Sylvia Vatuk -- Disputing contraception: Muslim reform, secular change, and fertility / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffery -- Cosmopolitan Islam in a diasporic space: foreign resident Muslim women's halaqa in the Arabian peninsula / Attiya Ahmad -- Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: women, democracy, and the transformation of Islamist politics / Elona Shehabuddin -- Secularism beyond the state: the state and the market in Islamist imagination / Humeina Iqtidar |
| Summary |
"Discusses contemporary Islamic reformism in South Asia in some of its diverse historical orientations and geographical expressions"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Jan 2014) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Islam -- South Asia -- History
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Islamic renewal -- South Asia
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Islam
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Islamic renewal
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South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Osella, Filippo
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Osella, Caroline
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| ISBN |
9781139382786 |
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1139382780 |
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9781107274037 |
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1107274036 |
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9781107275270 |
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110727527X |
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1107271940 |
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9781107271944 |
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1107277299 |
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9781107277298 |
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