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.
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/Twelwer Shias), Ismaili Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra and Ahmedia/Qadiyani communities and looks at them from the perspective of their interaction with the Hindu cultures and traditions. Written in a 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 religion, society, and culture of Muslim South Asia.
Introduction
1. Contemporary Shades of Islam in South Asia
2. A Short
Socio-religious History of the Shias
3. Development of Shiaism in Indian
Sub-continent
4. Mourning 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 Khomeinis Revolution on the
Shias of South Asia
9. Shia Festivals
10. Shias of Lucknow, Hyderabad and
Jammu & Kashmir
11. Fratricidal War: Islam's Existential Crisis
12. From
Ijtihad to Ismah: Some Concepts in 'Shia Islam'
13. Shia Communities of
Pakistan
14. The Ahmedi Community of Pakistan ISMAILISM AND ISMAILI
COMMUNITIES
15. The Bohra
16. The Khoja References and Bibliography
Nadeem Hasnain is a social scientist with a broad range of interests. He is formerly Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lucknow, India, Fulbright Scholar in Residence, and Visiting Professor in the US and Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research.
