Islamic Minorities of South Asia
An Ethnographic Account
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Taylor & Francis
- Date of Publication 5 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032963587
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages158 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English 718
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Short description:
Islamicate South Asia has generated interest since 9/11 as never before. However, Islamic Minorities, specifically, is still a relatively neglected area of study in South Asian Islam, particullarly due to the tendency to look at Islam as a monolithic faith and Muslims as a monolithic population to the western world.
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Islam and Islamicate South Asia have generated interest since 9/11 as never before. However, Islamic Minorities, specifically, is still a relatively neglected area of study in South Asian Islam. It may be due to the reason that there has been a tendency to look at Islam as a monolithic faith and Muslims as a monolithic population to the western world.
This book focuses on such Islamic Minorities as the Shias (dominant Isna Ashari/Twelver Shias), Ismaili Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra, and Ahmedia/Qadiyani communities and looks at them from the perspective of their interaction with Hindu cultures and traditions. Written in lucid language from a sociological perspective, it should be an important contribution to the field of “Lived Islam” or “Islam in Practice.”
This book will be invaluable to all those interested in the religion, society, and culture of Muslim South Asia.
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Introduction: Islam in South Asia and the Idea of “Lived Islam”
1 Contemporary Shades of Islam in South Asia
2 A Brief Socio-religious History of the Shias
3 Development of Shiaism in Indian Subcontinent
4 Mourning (Azadaari) and Martyrdom: The Defining Feature of Shia Identity
5 Network of Social Relationships: Caste, Family, Kinship, and Marriage
6 Economic and Political Life
7 Shia Women: Role Models and Changing Social Status
8 Impact of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Revolution on the Shias of South Asia
9 Shia Festivals
10 Shias of Lucknow, Hyderabad, and Jammu and Kashmir
11 Fratricidal War: Islam’s Existential Crisis
12 From Ijtihad to Ismah: Some Concepts in “Shia Islam”
13 Shia Communities in Pakistan
14 Ahmadi Community in Pakistan and its Persecution
Ismailism and Ismaili Communities
15 The Bohra
16 The Khoja
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