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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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