Shi'a Islam in Colonial India : Religion, Community and Sectarianism / Justin Jones.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jones, Justin, 1980-

Series:

• Cambridge books online.
• Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society ; no. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Shīʻah--India--History.
• Shīʻah--Customs and practices.
• Islam and politics--India.
• Islam and politics.
• Islamic sects.
• Shīʻah.
• History.
• India.
• Islamic sects--India.
• Religious life--Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file
• PDF

Summary:

Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained comparatively unexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period until Independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature, and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation, and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of Shi'ism, and to understandings of inner-Islamic conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial worlds. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Madrasas, mujtahids and missionaries: Shi'a clerical expansion in colonial India 32
• 2 Mosques, majalis and Muharram: Marketplace Shi'ism 73
• 3 Anjumans, endowments and Indian Shi'ism: The making of Shi'a society 114
• 4 Aligarh, jihad and pan-Islam: The politicization of the Indian Shi'a 147
• 5 The tabarra agitation and Shi'a-Sunni conflicts in late colonial India 186.

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ISBN:

• 9780511791505
• 9781107004603

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