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This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of lived Islam and Muslim social relaity in contemporary India. Moving away from the normative discourse that characterieses much discussion and debate about Muslims, it seeks to highlight the complex interactions between religion and a host of economic, social and political factors that help shape Indian Muslim identities. It draws attention to the multiple expressions of Islam and Muslim identity and challenges the notion of a Muslim monolith. This it does by looking at the ways in which various Indian Muslim organisations, activists and intellectual are seeking to respond to various challenges that Muslims in India are today faced with, such as growing demands for gender justice, the imperative to dialogue with people of other faiths and the need to respond to Hindutva, Islamist and Islamophobic discourses and politics. About Author : Yoginder Sikand is presently Professor at the Centre for Jawharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamai, New Delhi. He has contributed reseach papers to numerous scholarly journals and has authored several books, including The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jamaat (Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2002), Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India (Penguing, 2003), Muslism in India since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations (Routledge Curzon,London, 2004) and Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India (Penguin, 2005). he moderates an online discussion group called "South Asian Leftists Dialogue With Religion" Contents : Preface SECTION ONE : MADRASAS AND ISLAMIC EDUCATION Madrasas, Terrorism and the Indian State Madrasas and Intra-Muslim Rivalry Reforming the Indian Madrasas The Islamic Fiqh Academy: New Steps in Madrasa Reform New Horizons for Muslim Women A Deobandi Mullha;s Diatribe Against` Modern` Education for Girls America Courts the `Ulama SECTION TWO: MUSLIMS AS MINORITIES-INTER RELIGIOUS AND INTRA-MUSLIM RELATIONS- The Indian `Ulama and the Freedom Struggle `The Glories of India`: Patriotism in Islamic Discourse Muslims as Minorities: An Alternate Islamic Perspective Towards as Fiqh for Muslim Minorities Dissecting Dialogue: Thoughts on Islam and Inter-Faith Relations Jama`at-i Islami Hind: Signs of Change? World Social Forum and Mumbai Resistance: Whither Indian Muslims? The Limits of Radicalism: Thoughts on the SIMI Ban Self-Styled Imam Raises Flurry of Fatwas Countering Conspiracy Claims The Politics of Competitive Jihadism The Spectre fo Sectarianism: Analyzing the Ahl-i Hadit `Conversion; Convulsion in Basti Nizamuddin Intra-Muslim Sectarian Rivalries and the `Ulama Shi`a-Sunni Dialogue: Kalbe Sadiq`s Theology of Islamic Education SECTION THREE: ISLAM, WAR AND PEACE IN KASHMIR Hopes for Reconciliation in Kashmir Peace in Kashmir: Engaging Creatively with Religion A Different Doda SECTION FOUR: DEBATING MUSLIM WOMEN AND ISLAMIC LAW Furore Over Family Plannign Triple Talaq in One Sitting: An Islamic Counter- Perspective Women in the Mosque Reforming Muslim Personal Law in India: the Fyzee Formula Muslim Personal Law: Demand for Reforms in Inheritance Laws Patriarchy and Sectarianism: Explaning the Dissensions in the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board Yet Another Board: Indian Shias Stress Separate: Identity Shari`ah Court Campaign in India Shari`ah Court Campaign: the AIMPLB`s Perspective AIMPLB`s `Model` Nikahnamah: Much Ado About Nothing SECTION FIVE; HINDU-MUSLIM RELATIONS AND THE HINDUTVA CHALLENGE Hindutva Appropraition of a Sufi Saint: Piety and Politics in Chikmagalur Ayodhya`s Forgotten Muslim Past ISBN - 9788178711157
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Pages : 278
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