Perilous Intimacies

Author : SherAli Tareen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155835X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perilous Intimacies written by SherAli Tareen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Muslim scholars grapple with the possibilities and dangers of Hindu-Muslim friendship? How did they negotiate the incongruities between foundational texts and attitudes toward non-Muslims that were informed by the premodern context of Muslim empire and the realities of British colonialism, which rendered South Asian Muslims a political minority? In this groundbreaking book, SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. He argues that often what was at stake in Muslim scholarly discourse and debates on Hindu-Muslim friendship were unresolved tensions and fissures over the place and meaning of Islam in the modern world. Perilous Intimacies considers a range of topics, including Muslim scholarly translations of Hinduism, Hindu-Muslim theological polemics, the question of interreligious friendship in the Qur’an, intra-Muslim debates on cow sacrifice, and debates on emulating Hindu customs and habits. Based on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu sources, this book illuminates the depth, complexity, and profound divisions of the Muslim intellectual traditions of South Asia. Perilous Intimacies also provides timely perspective on the historical roots of present-day Hindu-Muslim relations, considering how to overcome thorny legacies and open new horizons for interreligious friendship.

Author : SherAli Tareen
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810672X
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending Muḥammad in Modernity written by SherAli Tareen and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia. Almost two hundred years separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present. Its specter, however, continues to haunt the religious sensibilities of postcolonial South Asian Muslims in profound ways, both in the region and in diaspora communities around the world. Defending Muḥammad in Modernity challenges the commonplace tendency to view such moments of intra-Muslim contest through the prism of problematic yet powerful liberal secular binaries like legal/mystical, moderate/extremist, and reformist/traditionalist. Tareen argues that the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic was instead animated by what he calls “competing political theologies” that articulated—during a moment in Indian Muslim history marked by the loss and crisis of political sovereignty—contrasting visions of the normative relationship between divine sovereignty, prophetic charisma, and the practice of everyday life. Based on the close reading of previously unexplored print and manuscript sources in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu spanning the late eighteenth and the entirety of the nineteenth century, this book intervenes in and integrates the often-disparate fields of religious studies, Islamic studies, South Asian studies, critical secularism studies, and political theology.

Author : Sayan Dey
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839986913
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: written by Sayan Dey and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with how the Siddis in Gujarat and the South African Indians in South Africa perform different forms of creolized socio-cultural practices in the contemporary era. Since the precolonial times, India and South Africa have developed commercial relations through sharing clothing materials, minerals, precious stones, and spices. Besides exchanging physical objects, varieties of cultures, traditions, and rituals were also exchanged between these countries. With the emergence of colonization in both these countries as Africans were brought to India as slaves and Indians were taken to South Africa as indentured laborers, a lot of objects like musical instruments, plant seeds, cooking utensils, and hand-woven clothes were carried across the Indian Ocean as cultural memories. With the passage of time, the cultural practices of the Indian Diaspora and African Diaspora got intermixed with the native local cultures of South Africa and India, respectively, and gave birth to porous, fluid, multi-rooted, and creolized cultural practices. This book brings forth some of the creolized culinary, spiritual, and musical practices of these communities, and how these performances can expand the archives of creolized cultural practices of Diaspora communities in the Indian Ocean World.

Author : Louis P. Masur
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862229
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of American History written by Louis P. Masur and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-05-20 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Challenge of American History, Louis Masur brings together a sampling of recent scholarship to determine the key issues preoccupying historians of American history and to contemplate the discipline's direction for the future. The fifteen summary essays included in this volume allow professional historians, history teachers, and students to grasp in a convenient and accessible form what historians have been writing about.

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ISBN 13 : 9788178246833
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Ernest Renan
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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Marcus Aurelius written by Ernest Renan and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Mougeot
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book The life of st. John Baptist de Rossi, tr. from the Ital. [of E. Mougeot] by lady Herbert written by E. Mougeot and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 332 pages
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Download or read book The Life of St. John Baptist de Rossi written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Mougeot
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book St. John Baptist de Rossi written by E. Mougeot and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Dursteler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883248
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book Venetians in Constantinople written by Eric Dursteler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Eric R Dursteler reconsiders identity in the early modern world to illuminate Veneto-Ottoman cultural interaction and coexistence, challenging the model of hostile relations and suggesting instead a more complex understanding of the intersection of cultures. Although dissonance and strife were certainly part of this relationship, he argues, coexistence and cooperation were more common. Moving beyond the "clash of civilizations" model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, Dursteler analyzes the lived reality by focusing on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople. While factors such as religion, culture, and political status could be integral elements in constructions of self and community, Dursteler finds early modern identity to be more than the sum total of its constitutent parts and reveals how the fluidity and malleability of identity in this time and place made coexistence among disparate cultures possible.