Islamic contestations : essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan / Barbara D. Metcalf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metcalf, Barbara, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--India.

Islam.

India.

Islam--Pakistan.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

viii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The essays in this volume, written over the course of the last quarter century, are intended to contribute to understanding the role that Islamic symbols and identities have come to play in Northern India and, since 1947, in Pakistan. Above all these essays offer a challenge to current negative stereotypes of the Muslim faith, demonstrating that the religion is not characterised by political militancy nor dominated by static traditionalism.

Contents:

The Madrasa at Deoband: a model for religious education in modern India

Two fatwas on Hajj in British India

The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii

Reading and writing about Muslim women in British India

Nationalist Muslims in British India: the case of Hakim Ajmal Khan

Hakim Ajmal Khan: rais of Delhi and Muslim 'leader'

Nationalism, modernity, and Muslim identity in India before 1947

Too little and too much: reflections on Muslims in the history of India

The case of Pakistan

Islamic arguments in contemporary Pakistan

'Traditionalist' Islamic activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs

Reflections on Iqbal's mosque

The pilgrimage remembered: south Asian accounts of the hajj

What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik

Narrating lives: a nationalist Muslim intellectual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195666666

OCLC:

55745364