Islam in India

Islam in India: History, Politics and Society is based on the historical and contemporary relevance of the religion and its related culture(s) in India.

Islam in India: History, Politics and Society is based on the historical and contemporary relevance of the religion and its related culture(s) in India.

Besides being a major religious doctrine, Islam has been the main political ideology for many dynasties in India such as Delhi Sultanate (1206-1451); the Illbaris Turks (also known as Mamluk 1206-90); Khiljis (1290-1320); Tughlaqs (1320-1414); Sayyids (1414-51), Afghans and the Mughal Empire. Islam played a pivotal role in shaping the polity and society during the period of each dynasty. This book argues that Islam in India ought to be seen not only as a political and religious ideology of the dynasties, but also as a significant force that shaped the cultural fabric of the country.

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Nasir Raza Khan (Ph.D.) is Hony. Director of India Arab Cultural Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He is former visiting professor of ICCR Chair of International Studies, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, and former director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture, Embassy of India, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Inhalt

Introduction

Nasir Raza Khan

Syncretic Traditions: Sufism and Bhakti in Indian History

1. Piety, Impiety and Islam: Muslim Religious Practice in Eighteenth Century Shahjahanabad

Rohma Javed Rashid

2. The Khwaja's Creed: Gharib Nawaz and Propagation of Sufi Thought

Babli Parveen

3. Sufi and Bhakti Tradition: Corresponding and Divergent Trends

Akhlaque Ahmad Ahan

4. Pluralism in Medieval Islamic Heritage: A Study of Sufi Ethos of Kashmir

G. N. Khaki

5. Sufi Contributions to the Intellectual Culture of Islam in India: Awarif-al-Ma'arif and Early Sufi Writings

Mohammad Shaheer Siddiqui

Islam and the State: History, Religion and Identity

6. Mughal Identity: Central Asian or Indian

Tasneem Suhrawardy

7. Cultural, Literary and Artistic world of Indo-Central Asia

Gulfishan Khan

8. Looking Through European Eyes: Mughal State and Religious Freedom as Gleaned from the European Travellers' Accounts of the Seventeenth Century

Nishat Manzar

9. Contesting The Authority of The Mughal Emperor: Abdul Qadir Badauni's Attitude Towards Kingship

Ikramul Haque

10. Masjids, 'Community Life' and Resistance in Colonial India: A Case Study of Masjid-e Jahan Numa at Shahjahanabad up to A.D 1870s.

Sadia Aziz

Intellectual Movements and Contemporary Perspectives: Islam in the Modern Age

11. Drawing Parallel with 19th Century Muslim Movements in India with Reform Movements Across Muslim Weltanschauung: An Analysis of Syed Ahmad's Work

M. Waseem Raja

12. Maktubat-e Syed Ahmad Khan and His Agenda of Social and Educational Reform

Parwez Nazir

13. Sir Syed's Aligarh Movement and Muslim Women Discourses

Naiyer Azam

14. Shi'i in India: A Minority within the Minority

Sayyad Mohd. Afzal

15. Pan-Islamism and Khilafat Movement: Understanding Muslim Minds in Colonial Perspectives

Hassan Imam

16. Contemporary Islam: A Realistic Assessment of the Current Dynamics and Progressive Strategies for the Future

Sultan Shahin

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Index