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The authors in this volume discuss contemporary Islamic reformism in South Asia in some of its diverse historical orientations and geographical expressions. ‘Reformism’ is particularly troublesome as a term, in that it covers broad trends stretching back for more than 200 years. Still, ‘reformism’ can be useful as a term in helping contributors to insist upon recognition of the differences between projects of revival and renewal and such contemporary obsessions as ‘political Islam’, ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, and so on. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as ‘wah’habism’) and branded as extremist – if not altogether demonised as terrorist. Academic researchers and graduate students will find this book useful.
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Reformist Journeys
Chapter 1: The Equivocal History of a Muslim Reformation
Chapter 2: Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia
Chapter 3: Reform Sufism in South Asia
Chapter 4: Breathing in India, c. 1890
Part II: Debating Reform
Chapter 5: The Enemy Within: Madrasa and Muslim Identity in North India
Chapter 6: Islamism and Social Reform in Kerala, South India
Chapter 7: Piety as Politics amongst Muslim Women in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Chapter 8: The Changing Perspectives of Three Muslim Men on the Question of Saint Worship over a 10-Year Period in Gujarat, Western India
Chapter 9: Women, Politics and Islamism in Northern Pakistan
Chapter 10: Violence, Reconstruction and Islamic Reform—Stories from the Muslim ‘Ghetto
Part III: Everyday Politics of Reform
Chapter 11: Reading the Qur’an in Bangladesh: The Politics of ‘Belief’ Among Islamist Women
Chapter 12: Cracks in the ‘Mightiest Fortress’: Jamaat-e-Islami’s Changing Discourse on Women
Chapter 13: Islamic Feminism in India: Indian Muslim Women Activists and the Reform of Muslim Personal Law
Chapter 14: Disputing Contraception: Muslim Reform, Secular Change and Fertility
Part IV: Reform, State and Market
Chapter 15: Cosmopolitan Islam in a Diasporic Space: Foreign Resident Muslim Women’s Halaqa in the Arabian Peninsula
Chapter 16: Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: Women, Democracy and the Transformation of Islamist Politics
Chapter 17: Secularism Beyond the State: the ‘State’ and the ‘Market’ in Islamist Imagination
Index
ISBN - 9781107031753
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Pages : 538
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