The Muslim world in modern South Asia : power, authority, knowledge / Francis Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Francis, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic renewal--South Asia.

Islamic renewal.

South Asia--Civilization--Western influences.

South Asia.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 397 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Over the past two hundred years, two great processes have shaped Muslim societies: Western domination and the industrial capitalism that came with it, and the Islamic revival that preceded the Western presence but came to interact significantly with it. In this book, Francis Robinson considers the challenges Western dominance has offered key aspects of Muslim civilization, particularly in the context of South Asia, which in the nineteenth century moved from being a receiver of influences from the rest of the Muslim world to being a transmitter of influences to it.Robinson also considers aspects of the Muslim revival and how they have come to shape, in various ways, Muslim responses to Western dominance. The role of the transmission of knowledge, both formal and spiritual, in forming Muslim societies is explored, and also the particular role of the transmitters in sustaining the Islamic dimensions of Muslim societies under Western dominance. Attention, too, is paid to the imposition of the modern state and the restriction of cosmopolitan spaces.

Notes:

First published: Ranikhet : Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438483030

1438483031

Publisher Number:

40030411452

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