Islam in South Asia in Practice
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Islam in South Asia in Practice

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Islam in South Asia in Practice

About this book

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

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INDEX

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‘Abd al-Haqq Dihlawi, Shaykh, 390
‘Abd al-Hayy Lakhnawi, Mawlawi/Maulana, 343–44, 346–47
‘Abd al-Qadir Badayuni, 372, 390–401
‘Abd al-Qadir Gilani (Ghawth-ii a‘zam), Shaikh, Syed/Sayyid, 101, 106, 167, 344, 444
‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Shah, 21, 201
‘Abdullah Muhaddith Ropari, 342–43, 349
‘Abdu’l Latif, Shah, Risalo, 50
abjad, 79, 457
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (caliph), 237, 307, 313, 324
Abu Dawud, Imam, 307
Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarrak, 14, 15, 77, 79, 390
Abu Hanifa, Imam, 227, 231, 285, 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 307, 312, 321
Abu’l A‘la Maududi/Abul Ala Maududi/Abul Ala Mawdudi/Abul ala Maudoodi, Maulana/Mawlana, 28–29, 189, 242, 252, 253, 319, 425, 429, 433, 441, 447, 448
Abul Hasan ‘Ali/Hujwiri, Shaykh, 5
Abu’l Kalam Azad, Maulana, 372–73
Abul Mahasin Muhammad Sajjad, Maulana, 269, 317–25
Afghanistan, xvii, xx, 6, 17–18, 27, 29–30, 77, 243, 270
Agra, 17, 82
agriculture, 4, 371, 375–89
Ahl-i Hadith, 101, 226, 342–43, 426, 427, 435, 439
Ahl-i-Sunnat wa Jama‘at/Ahl-i Sunnat va Jama‘at (Barelvi/Barelwi) sect, 45, 101–3, 106, 226, 329, 342, 426, 427, 435, 439, 441, 449
Ahmad, Imtiaz, xxii, xxiii
Ahmadabad, 10
Ahmad Barelvi/Barelwi Shahid, Sayyid...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Princeton Readings in Religions
  5. Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Contributors
  9. Preface: Islam in South Asia in Practice · Barbara D. Metcalf
  10. Maps
  11. Introduction: A Historical Overview of Islam in South Asia · Barbara D. Metcalf
  12. Devotion and Praise: To Allah, Muhammad, Imams, and Elders
  13. Holy and Exemplary Lives
  14. The Transmission of Learning
  15. Guidance, Sharia, and Law
  16. Belonging
  17. Glossary
  18. Index