ISBN:
9781107004603
,
1107004608
Language:
English
Pages:
XXV, 276 S.
,
Ill., Kt
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society 18
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Jones, Justin, 1980 - Shi'a Islam in colonial India
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jones, Justin Shiʻa Islam in colonial India
DDC:
297.8/2095409034
Keywords:
Shīʻah History
;
Shīʻah Customs and practices
;
Islam and politics
;
Islamic sects
;
Religious life Shīʻah
;
Lucknow (India) Religious life and customs
;
Uttar Pradesh (India) Religious life and customs
;
Shī'ah
;
India
;
History
;
Shī'ah
;
Customs and practices
;
Islam and politics
;
India
;
Islamic sects
;
India
;
Lucknow (India)
;
Religious life and customs
;
Uttar Pradesh (India)
;
Religious life and customs
;
Indien
;
Schiiten
;
Sunniten
;
Konflikt
Abstract:
"This book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947"--
Abstract:
"Interest in Shiʻism Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shiʻism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shiʻa minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shiʻa rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shiʻism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature, and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shiʻa religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation, and the politicization of the Shiʻa community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shiʻa sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of Shiʻism, and to understandings of inner-Islamic conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial worlds"--
Abstract:
"This book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947"--
Abstract:
"Interest in Shiʻism Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shiʻism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shiʻa minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shiʻa rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shiʻism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature, and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shiʻa religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation, and the politicization of the Shiʻa community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shiʻa sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of Shiʻism, and to understandings of inner-Islamic conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial worlds"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Madrasas, mujtahids, and missionaries: Shi'a clerical expansion in colonial India; 2. Mosques, majalis and Muharram: marketplace Shi'ism; 3. Anjumans, endowments and Indian Shi'ism: the making of Shi'a society; 4. Aligarh, jihad, and pan-Islam: the politicisation of the Indian Shi'a; 5. The tabarra agitation and Shi'a-Sunni conflict in late-colonial India; Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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