The languages of political Islam : India, 1200-1800 / Muzaffar Alam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alam, Muzaffar, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--India--History.

Islam.

Islamic law.

History.

Politics and government.

Persian language.

India.

Islam and politics--India--History.

Islam and politics.

Persian language--Political aspects--India.

India--Politics and government--997-1765.

India--Politics and government--18th century.

Sufism--India--History.

Sufism.

Islamic law--India--History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 244 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Summary:

"The Languages of Political Islam illuminates the diverse ways in which Islam, from the time of its arrival in India in the twelfth century through its height as the ruling theology to its decline, adapted to its new cultural context to become "Indianized." Muzaffar Alam shows that the adoption of Arabo-Persian Islam in India changed the manner in which Islamic rule and governance were conducted. Islamic regulation and statecraft in a predominately Hindu country required strategic shifts from the original Islamic injunctions. Islamic principles could not regulate beliefs in a vast country without accepting cultural limitations and limits on the exercise of power. As a result of cultural adaptation, Islam was in the end forced to reinvent its principles for religious rule. Acculturation also forced key Islamic terms to change so fundamentally that Indian Islam could be said to have acquired a character substantially different from the Islam practiced outside of India.

Notes:

Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-223) and index.

ISBN:

0226011011

OCLC:

54913347

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