Islamic Reform in South Asia
Author： Filippo Osella;Caroline Osella;
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781316906941
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107031753
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781107031753
Subject： K3 Asian History
Keyword： 亚洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
The book demonstrates the historical and geographical specificities of Islamic reform projects in South Asia. This book discusses contemporary Islamic reformism in South Asia in some of its diverse historical orientations and geographical expressions. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. This book discusses contemporary Islamic reformism in South Asia in some of its diverse historical orientations and geographical expressions. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates Sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist – if not altogether demonised as terrorist. List of contributors; Introduction Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella; Part I. Reformist Journeys: 1. The equivocal history of a Muslim reformation Faisal Devji; 2. Islamic reform and modernities in South Asia Francis Robinson; 3. Reform Sufism in South Asia Pnina Werbner; 4. Breathing in India, c.1890 Nile Green; Part II. Debating Reform: 5. The enemy within: Madrasa and Muslim identity in North India Arshad Alam; 6. Islamism and social reform in Kerala, South India Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella; 7. Piety as politics amongst Muslim women in contemporary Sri Lanka Farzana Haniffa; 8. The changing perspectives of three Muslim men on the question of saint worship over a 10-year period in Gujarat, Western India Edward Simpson; 9. Women, politics and Islamism in northern Pakistan Magnus Marsden; 10. Violence, reconstruction and Islamic reform: stories from the Muslim ghetto Rubina Jasani; Part III. Everyday Politics of Reform: 11. Reading the Qur'an in Bangladesh: the politics of 'belief' among Islamist women Maimuna Huq; 12. Cracks in the 'mightiest fortress': Jamaat-e-Islami's changing discourse on women Irfan Ahmad; 13. Islamic feminism in India: Indian Muslim women activists and the reform of Muslim personal law Sylvia Vatuk; 14. Disputing contraception: Muslim reform, secular change and fertility Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey; Part IV. Reform, State and Market: 15. Cosmopolitan Islam in a diasporic space: foreign resident Muslim women's Halaqa in the Arabian Peninsula Attiya Ahmad; 16. Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: women, democracy and the transformation of Islamist politics Elora Shehabuddin; 17. Secular
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