ISBN:
9780511791505
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 276 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society 18
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
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DDC:
297.8/2095409034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1950
;
Geschichte 1890-1940
;
Geschichte
;
Shīʻah / India / History
;
Shīʻah / Customs and practices
;
Islam and politics / India
;
Islamic sects / India
;
Religious life / Shīʻah
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Konflikt
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Schiiten
;
Sunniten
;
Indien
;
Lucknow (India) / Religious life and customs
;
Uttar Pradesh (India) / Religious life and customs
;
Indien
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Indien
;
Schiiten
;
Geschichte 1800-1950
;
Indien
;
Schiiten
;
Sunniten
;
Konflikt
;
Indien
;
Schiiten
;
Geschichte 1890-1940
Abstract:
Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism 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 Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511791505
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