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Jinnealogy : time, Islam, and ecological thought in the medieval ruins of Delhi / Anand Vivek Taneja.
Van Pelt Library BP63.I42 T363 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taneja, Anand Vivek, 1980- author.
- Series:
- South Asia in motion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jinn--India--Delhi.
- Jinn.
- Islam--India--Delhi.
- Islam.
- Muslim saints--India--Delhi.
- Muslim saints.
- Islamic antiquities--India--Delhi.
- Islamic antiquities.
- Islam--Relations--Hinduism.
- Relations.
- Hinduism.
- Delhi (India)--Religious life and customs.
- Delhi (India).
- India--Delhi.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja engages with the visitors, mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of ethical life and resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : walking away from the theater of history
- Jinnealogy : archival amnesia and Islamic theology in post-partition Delhi
- Saintly visions : the ethics of elsewhen
- Strange(r)ness
- Desiring women
- Translation
- Stones, snakes, and saints : remembering the vanished sacred geographies of Delhi
- The shifting enchantments of ruins and laws in Delhi
- Conclusion : remnants of despair; traces of hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Taneja, Anand Vivek, 1980- Jinnealogy.
- ISBN:
- 9781503601796
- 150360179X
- 9781503603936
- 1503603938
- OCLC:
- 978351754
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