Islamic Reform in South Asia

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ID19901500
AuthorsFaisal Devji (0000-0003-1580-8494), Francis Robinson (0009-0007-3407-5114), P Werbner (0000-0003-2296-9851), Nile Green (0000-0001-9575-3889), Arshad Alam, Farzana Haniffa (0000-0001-8898-6924), Edward Simpson (0000-0002-5359-8259), Магнус Марсден, Rubina Jasani (0000-0002-8814-5268), Maimuna Huq, Irfan Ahmad (0000-0002-3780-0509), Sylvia Vatuk, Patricia Jeffery, Attiya Ahmad (0009-0008-3724-4603), Elora Shehabuddin, Humeira Iqtidar (0000-0002-9977-3235)
EditorsFilippo Osella, Caroline Osella
Year2013
Publication date2013-05-16
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueIslamic Reform in South Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139382786
OpenAlexW1595443407
Open LibraryOL25316675M
ISBN9781139382786
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited33

The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates Sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist – if not altogether demonised as terrorist

Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Ethnography · Historiography · Islam · Mainstream · Plural · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Terrorism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Islamic renewal · Religion · South asia

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