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297.63 RAM Messenger : the meanings of the life of Muhammad | 297.65 ERN Eternal garden : mysticism, history, and politics at a South Asian Sufi center | 297.770954 ALA Inside a Madrasa : knowledge, power and islamic identity in India | 297.82095409034 JON Shi'a Islam in colonial India : religion, community and sectarianism | 297.822 LEW Assassins : a radical sect in Islam | 299.93 OSH Learning to silence the mind : wellness through meditation | 299.9340924 BES Annie Besant : an autobiography |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Interest in Shi'ism 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. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of Shi'ism, and to understandings of inner-Islamic conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial worlds.
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