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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. First edition.. A fine (new) copy still shrink-wrapped from the publisher.. Pp. 535; with 2 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's original color-pictorial laminated hardcover, lg 8vo. The chapters in this volume build upon ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth-century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a reformist Islam. 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…
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- Title Islamic Reform In South Asia
- Author Osella
- Binding Hardcover
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, New Delhi
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9781107031753
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Islamic Reform in South Asia.
by Osella, Filippo and Osella, Caroline (editors).
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