M Q Zaman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98830 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Q Zaman |
| NOMBRES | M Q |
| APELLIDO | Zaman |
| FIRMA | ZAMAN M Q |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6689-2289 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Law and Sufism in modern South Asia
This article studies some major shifts in the relationship between law and Sufism in South Asian Islam between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. It does so by focusing on Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762) to examine, first, how these two key facets of Islam interact with each other in his thought and, second, how some influential Muslim intellectuals of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have understood and positioned themselv…
Rationalising ritual
This article examines the discussion of core Islamic rituals in the writings of the influential eighteenth-century Sufi, hadith scholar, and jurist Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762). It brings out the implications of Wali Allah's sustained concern with demonstrating how divinely mandated rituals serve human interests, not just at the individual but also at the societal and political levels. This aspect of Wali Allah's thought has parallels with …
Afterword
In his learned and stimulating article that helps frame the contributions to this roundtable while also outlining directions for future work in this area, Nile Green notes the striking fact that it has been nearly a hundred years since the last substantial English survey of the field was attempted. That was M. G. Zubaid Ahmad's “Contribution of India to Arabic Literature,” completed as a PhD dissertation under the supervision of the noted Orienta…
Divine Sovereignty—Some Reflections
I offer some reflections here on the set of articles gathered in this special issue on divine sovereignty and further develop some thoughts first adumbrated in a piece published in JRAS 25/3 (2015)
Political Power, Religious Authority, and the Caliphate in Eighteenth-Century Indian Islamic Thought
This article examines how Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762), one of the most prominent scholars of eighteenth-century India whose thought has continued to be influential in many Muslim circles to the present day, conceptualized the interplay of political power and religious authority. Though several of Wali Allah's numerous writings have received considerable scholarly attention, this aspect of his political and religious thought has, oddly, bee…
Islam in Pakistan
Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, His Successors, and the Qurʾān
The Sovereignty of God in Modern Islamic Thought
The sovereignty of God and related ideas have had a prominent place in Islamist discourses. Key figures like Mawdudi of Pakistan and Qutb of Egypt have argued that anything less than exclusive submission to God's law, and all that it necessitates in religious and political terms, is idolatry. Yet the idea of the sovereignty of God has been invoked by many more people than the Islamists, and it has meant quite different things in different quarter…
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East and a number of scholars belonging to the Deobandi orientation in colonial and contemporary South Asia, this book examines some …
Shari‘a and the State in Pakistan
In Pakistan, Muslim “modernists” are characterized above all by the desire to rethink and adapt Muslim practices, institutions, and norms in light of what they understand to be the true “spirit” of Islam and in light of the imperatives of modernity. Islamists share much with the modernists in their intellectual background, but the Islamists’ single-minded concern with the public implementation of Islamic norms sets them apart. There are differenc…
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam
Evolving Conceptions of Ijtihad in Modern South Asia
This paper has three overlapping concerns. First, it reviews some instances of how the idea of ijtihad has figured in the discourses of the modern ‘ulama’. Second, it shows how the debates on this contested subject can shed some light on intellectual exchanges between Arab Middle Eastern and South Asian scholars and, more specifically, between the reformist Salafis of the Arab world and the Deobandi's of the Indian subcontinent. It argues, finall…
The Ulama and Contestations on Religious Authority
The Islamic School of Law
Book Reviews / Islamic Law and Society 16 (2009) 95-111 101 e Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution, and Progress . Edited by Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters, Frank Vogel. Harvard Series in Islamic Law, 2. Cambridge, MA: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii + 300. ISBN 0-674-01784-6. $39.95. is collection of essays represents an important contribution to the study of a ce…
Ashraf Ali Thanawi
Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi (1863-1943) was one of the most prominent religious scholars in Islamic history. Author of over a thousand books on different aspects of Islam, his work sought to defend the Islamic scholarly tradition and to articulate its authority in an age of momentous religious and political change. In this authoritative biography, Muhammad Qasim Zaman offers a comprehensive and highly accessible account of Thanawi's multifaceted career a…
Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan
Cet article traite des lettrés religieux musulmans formés traditionnellement, les oulémas, au Pakistan. Il examine comment ils ont produit leurs propres conceptions de la tradition lettrée islamique et il compare leurs discours avec ceux qui leur font concurrence et qui sont produits par d’autres types d’intellectuels religieux. L’article analyse l’incommensurabilité du style et du discours des oulémas avec ceux de leurs critiques modernistes, à …
Nation, Nationalism, and the culamāɔ
Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam
Les funerailles, dans les premiers temps de l'Islam, semble avoir joue un role de marqueur des conflits au sein de la communaute, des dissensions pouvant se traduire par le boycott des funerailles. A l'inverse, on fait volontiers mention des foules assistant aux funerailles d'un sage respecte, signe posthume de saintete valant comme la validation d'une doctrine. Ainsi les funerailles peuvent servir a affirmer l'autorite religieuse, ce qui amene a…
In the Vicinity of the Righteous
In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyāra and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt. By Christopher S. Taylor (Islamic History and Civilization – Studies and Texts, Vol. 22) pp. xv, 264. Leiden, Brill, 1999. - Volume 11 Issue 2
Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics
Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics: A Study of the Khilafat Movement, 1918–1924. By M. Naeem Qureshi. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, volume 66) pp. xvi, 543. Leiden, Brill, 1999. - Volume 11 Issue 1
Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries
There is much that the ʿulamāʾ of the eastern Islamic lands shared, in terms of their conceptions of the scholarly tradition and of the practices constitutive of it, with religious scholars elsewhere and, despite the transformations they have undergone since the nineteenth century, many of these conceptions and practices have continued to characterise their scholarly culture. What are these practices? In what directions did they evolve during the…
Religion and Politics under the Early 'Abbasids
A Response to Saleh Said Agha's Review of Religion and Politics Under the Early ⊂ Abbasids
In his review of my book Religion and Politics under the Early ⊂ Abbasids , Saleh Said Agha seriously misunderstands several of my arguments, then sets out to refute his versions of these arguments. The constraints of space do not permit me to take note of all his criticisms and misconstructions, though I should like to mention and clarify a few of them
Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbāsids
The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early 'Abbasid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of Sunni Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent Sunni elite in relation to the 'Abbasids. Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early…
Merchant Capital and Islam
This book, based substantially on the author's doctoral dissertation(UCLA, 1981), presents an economic interpretation of the early history ofIslam. By studying the trends and consequences of pre-Islamic Makkah'scommercial activities, it seeks to bring out both the material bases of therise of Islam and the element of continuity between pre-Islamic Makkah andearly Islamic history.The author bases his work on the following postulate: the developmen…
Sectarianism in Pakistan
This essay is an enquiry into the context, nature, and significance of militant sectarian conflict in Pakistan. The parties to the conflict are the Sunnis, who constitute the majority of Muslims in Pakistan, and the Shi'a, a small but influential minority. Conflict between these two religious communities has deep roots in the history of Islam and of South Asia. In Pakistan, which aspires to be in some sense an 'Islamic state', sectarian conflict …
Coping with Riverbank Erosion Hazard and Displacement in Bangladesh
As a deltaic plain, Bangladesh annually experiences riverbank erosion hazard due to sudden and rapid channel shifting, particularly in the major floodplain areas of the country. Consequently, valuable cultivable land is lost; also village settlements, markets and towns are destroyed, displacing tens of thousands of people. This paper examines the magnitude of river channel migration and encroachment on land, and the nature of human adjustment sys…
Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh
The Sovereignty of God in Modern Islamic Thought
The sovereignty of God and related ideas have had a prominent place in Islamist discourses. Key figures like Mawdudi of Pakistan and Qutb of Egypt have argued that anything less than exclusive submission to God's law, and all that it necessitates in religious and political terms, is idolatry. Yet the idea of the sovereignty of God has been invoked by many more people than the Islamists, and it has meant quite different things in different quarter…
The Displaced Poor and Resettlement Policies in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a land of natural disasters. Every year the country is affected by flood, riverbank erosion, drought, coastal cyclone and tornado. Riverbank erosion alone displaces an estimated one million people annually. Based on research carried out in Bangladesh in 1984-85, this paper critically examines resettlement options of the displaced poor in the light of existing policies for developing more effective short and long-term resettlement an…
Social Structure and Process in Char Land Settlement in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain
This article offers a socio-economic and political analysis of accretion land (char) settlement in Bangladesh. Specifically, it discusses the nrse, in the floodplain, of the system of relations between landlords and peasants known as lathiyali, which became an important politico-economic structure in land colonization during the zainindary period (1793-1950) in Bengal. It also provides a detailed account of the rivalry of powerful landlords in co…
Commentaries, Print and Patronage
Recent work on the impact of print on Muslim societies has been much concerned with debating how conceptions and structures of religious authority may have been altered, and a new era of religious change inaugurated, through this technology. It was only in the nineteenth century—the latter half of that century in case of the Indian subcontinent—that print came to be wholeheartedly embraced by the Muslim religious élite as a vehicle for the effect…
Development and Displacement in Bangladesh
Research Article| July 01 1996 Development and Displacement in Bangladesh: Toward a Resettlement Policy M. Q. Zaman M. Q. Zaman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (7): 691–703. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645717 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Political Power, Religious Authority, and the Caliphate in Eighteenth-Century Indian Islamic Thought
This article examines how Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762), one of the most prominent scholars of eighteenth-century India whose thought has continued to be influential in many Muslim circles to the present day, conceptualized the interplay of political power and religious authority. Though several of Wali Allah's numerous writings have received considerable scholarly attention, this aspect of his political and religious thought has, oddly, bee…
Arabic, the Arab Middle East, and the Definition of Muslim Identity in Twentieth Century India
The “foreignness” of Islam in India is a familiar theme in the rhetoric of contemporary-Hindu fundamentalism. The numerical majority of Hindus in India is taken to mean that the nation-state ought to be founded on ideals and institutions defined as authentically “Hindu”, that India is the land of the Hindus, and that it must be ruled only by them. This ideology evidently leaves little room for non-Hindus, but especially so for Muslims, who ruled …
Religious Education and the Rhetoric of Reform
The madrasa is one of the many institutions which have seen recurrent attempts at reform in Muslim societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the eleventh century, when it first emerged as the principal institution of higher Islamic learning, the madrasa has undergone many changes, adapting in varying degrees to local cultures and changing times.On the madrasa in medieval Islam, see George Makdisi, The Rise of Colleges (Edinbu…
Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan
Cet article traite des lettrés religieux musulmans formés traditionnellement, les oulémas, au Pakistan. Il examine comment ils ont produit leurs propres conceptions de la tradition lettrée islamique et il compare leurs discours avec ceux qui leur font concurrence et qui sont produits par d’autres types d’intellectuels religieux. L’article analyse l’incommensurabilité du style et du discours des oulémas avec ceux de leurs critiques modernistes, à …
Maghāzī and the Muḥaddithūn
Islamicists have long been interested in the historiography of the sīra and maghāzī literature. Ibn Ishaq's Sīra has been fruitfully compared with al-Waqidi's Maghāzī , and both have been compared with sections in al-Bukhari's Ṣaḥīḥ or with other collections of hadith. It has often been observed that the materials constituting the Sīra of Ibn Ishaq or the Maghāzī of al-Waqidi—works which may for convenience, but only with reservations, be designa…
A Venture in Critical Islamic Historiography and the Significance of Its Failure
The concern to acquaint the Muslims of India with the earliest history of Islam, and to help them become better Muslims, has characterised the Nadwat alUlamā's historical scholarship since its inception in 1894. This paper concentrates on a monumental study of the life and achievement of the Prophet, the Sīrat al-Nabī, (7 vols., 1918-1980), produced by two distinguished scholars associated with the Nadwa. Planned as an authoritative presentation …
Rivers of Life
For Bengalis, these songs by the two most famous folk singers of Bangladesh resonate with the duality and paradox of life and death, of replenishment and devastation, caused by recurrent high floods. They also reflect the Bengali peasant world-view that is deeply rooted in the relationship of the lives of ordinary Bengalis to water. During each monsoon season, almost all of Bangladesh's deltaic plain is submergedmost of it for about half the year…
Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam
Les funerailles, dans les premiers temps de l'Islam, semble avoir joue un role de marqueur des conflits au sein de la communaute, des dissensions pouvant se traduire par le boycott des funerailles. A l'inverse, on fait volontiers mention des foules assistant aux funerailles d'un sage respecte, signe posthume de saintete valant comme la validation d'une doctrine. Ainsi les funerailles peuvent servir a affirmer l'autorite religieuse, ce qui amene a…
Religion and Politics under the Early 'Abbasids
A Response to Saleh Said Agha's Review of Religion and Politics Under the Early ⊂ Abbasids
In his review of my book Religion and Politics under the Early ⊂ Abbasids , Saleh Said Agha seriously misunderstands several of my arguments, then sets out to refute his versions of these arguments. The constraints of space do not permit me to take note of all his criticisms and misconstructions, though I should like to mention and clarify a few of them
The Caliphs, the ʿUlamāʾ, and the Law
The early ʿAbbāsid period is usually thought of as a time when a definitive and enduring separation between religion and politics took place. On this view, expressed most notably by Lapidus and Crone and Hinds, the failure of the Miḥna instituted by the caliph al-Maʾmūn, a major showdown with prominent ʿulamāʾ, is taken as the critical moment which marked the end of any involvement of the caliphs in matters of law. Arguing against any such separa…
The relevance of religion and the response to it
What did the Muslim citizen of the classical Islamic world mean by Islam? In what sense was it operative in his life? To what extent did an Islamic slogan signify religious commitment? The difficulty in treating these questions consists in the fact of the variety, not the dearth of answers to them. Rather than develop alternative perspectives, however, we would, in what follows, focus our study on one aspect of the life of the Muslim Umma. This i…
Coping with Riverbank Erosion Hazard and Displacement in Bangladesh
As a deltaic plain, Bangladesh annually experiences riverbank erosion hazard due to sudden and rapid channel shifting, particularly in the major floodplain areas of the country. Consequently, valuable cultivable land is lost; also village settlements, markets and towns are destroyed, displacing tens of thousands of people. This paper examines the magnitude of river channel migration and encroachment on land, and the nature of human adjustment sys…
Routinization of Revolutionary Charisma
Some Considerations on References to the Qur'ān During the 'Abbāsid Movement
Riverbank Erosion and Population Resettlement in Bangladesh
Two images of Bangladesh as a country are commonplace in the West and often simplistically intertwined—a land of overpopulation and poverty, and a land cursed by natural disaster. Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world with an estimated per capita income equivalent to only U.S. $180. It is also one of the world's most crowded countries. One hundred thirteen million people live in Bangladesh, an area about the size of Wisconsin, w…
Working Together
Riverbank slumping or erosion caused by shifting of river channels is an endemic and recurrent natural hazard in Bangladesh that displaces an estimated one million people in the country annually. A multi-disciplinary and collaborative research between the University of Manitoba (Canada) and Jahangirnagar University (Bangladesh) was carried out in 1983–88 to investigate into the problems of river channel migration, rural population displacement an…
Social Science and Social Concern
The Displaced Poor and Resettlement Policies in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a land of natural disasters. Every year the country is affected by flood, riverbank erosion, drought, coastal cyclone and tornado. Riverbank erosion alone displaces an estimated one million people annually. Based on research carried out in Bangladesh in 1984-85, this paper critically examines resettlement options of the displaced poor in the light of existing policies for developing more effective short and long-term resettlement an…
Social Structure and Process in Char Land Settlement in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna Floodplain
This article offers a socio-economic and political analysis of accretion land (char) settlement in Bangladesh. Specifically, it discusses the nrse, in the floodplain, of the system of relations between landlords and peasants known as lathiyali, which became an important politico-economic structure in land colonization during the zainindary period (1793-1950) in Bengal. It also provides a detailed account of the rivalry of powerful landlords in co…
Applied Anthropology
Human responses to riverine hazards in Bangladesh
Rivers of Life
For Bengalis, these songs by the two most famous folk singers of Bangladesh resonate with the duality and paradox of life and death, of replenishment and devastation, caused by recurrent high floods. They also reflect the Bengali peasant world-view that is deeply rooted in the relationship of the lives of ordinary Bengalis to water. During each monsoon season, almost all of Bangladesh's deltaic plain is submergedmost of it for about half the year…
Disaster Research, Management and Mitigation
A Venture in Critical Islamic Historiography and the Significance of Its Failure
The concern to acquaint the Muslims of India with the earliest history of Islam, and to help them become better Muslims, has characterised the Nadwat alUlamā's historical scholarship since its inception in 1894. This paper concentrates on a monumental study of the life and achievement of the Prophet, the Sīrat al-Nabī, (7 vols., 1918-1980), produced by two distinguished scholars associated with the Nadwa. Planned as an authoritative presentation …
Maghāzī and the Muḥaddithūn
Islamicists have long been interested in the historiography of the sīra and maghāzī literature. Ibn Ishaq's Sīra has been fruitfully compared with al-Waqidi's Maghāzī , and both have been compared with sections in al-Bukhari's Ṣaḥīḥ or with other collections of hadith. It has often been observed that the materials constituting the Sīra of Ibn Ishaq or the Maghāzī of al-Waqidi—works which may for convenience, but only with reservations, be designa…
Development and Displacement in Bangladesh
Research Article| July 01 1996 Development and Displacement in Bangladesh: Toward a Resettlement Policy M. Q. Zaman M. Q. Zaman Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (7): 691–703. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645717 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Religion and Politics under the Early ‘Abbāsids
The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early ‘Abbāsid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of Sunnī Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent Sunnī elite in relation to the ‘Abbāsids. Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early…
The Caliphs, the ʿUlamāʾ, and the Law
The early ʿAbbāsid period is usually thought of as a time when a definitive and enduring separation between religion and politics took place. On this view, expressed most notably by Lapidus and Crone and Hinds, the failure of the Miḥna instituted by the caliph al-Maʾmūn, a major showdown with prominent ʿulamāʾ, is taken as the critical moment which marked the end of any involvement of the caliphs in matters of law. Arguing against any such separa…
The Role of Arabic and the Arab Middle East in the Definition of Muslim Identity in Twentieth Century India
Arabic, the Arab Middle East, and the Definition of Muslim Identity in Twentieth Century India
The “foreignness” of Islam in India is a familiar theme in the rhetoric of contemporary-Hindu fundamentalism. The numerical majority of Hindus in India is taken to mean that the nation-state ought to be founded on ideals and institutions defined as authentically “Hindu”, that India is the land of the Hindus, and that it must be ruled only by them. This ideology evidently leaves little room for non-Hindus, but especially so for Muslims, who ruled …
Sectarianism in Pakistan
This essay is an enquiry into the context, nature, and significance of militant sectarian conflict in Pakistan. The parties to the conflict are the Sunnis, who constitute the majority of Muslims in Pakistan, and the Shi'a, a small but influential minority. Conflict between these two religious communities has deep roots in the history of Islam and of South Asia. In Pakistan, which aspires to be in some sense an 'Islamic state', sectarian conflict …
Commentaries, Print and Patronage
Recent work on the impact of print on Muslim societies has been much concerned with debating how conceptions and structures of religious authority may have been altered, and a new era of religious change inaugurated, through this technology. It was only in the nineteenth century—the latter half of that century in case of the Indian subcontinent—that print came to be wholeheartedly embraced by the Muslim religious élite as a vehicle for the effect…
Religious Education and the Rhetoric of Reform
The madrasa is one of the many institutions which have seen recurrent attempts at reform in Muslim societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since the eleventh century, when it first emerged as the principal institution of higher Islamic learning, the madrasa has undergone many changes, adapting in varying degrees to local cultures and changing times.On the madrasa in medieval Islam, see George Makdisi, The Rise of Colleges (Edinbu…
Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries
There is much that the ʿulamāʾ of the eastern Islamic lands shared, in terms of their conceptions of the scholarly tradition and of the practices constitutive of it, with religious scholars elsewhere and, despite the transformations they have undergone since the nineteenth century, many of these conceptions and practices have continued to characterise their scholarly culture. What are these practices? In what directions did they evolve during the…
Religion and Politics under the Early 'Abbasids
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