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by Anand Vivek Taneja
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- Title Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
- Author Anand Vivek Taneja
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 2017-11-21
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781503603936 / 1503603938
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Indian
- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Library of Congress subjects Islam - Relations - Hinduism, Jinn - India - Delhi
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017012270
- Dewey Decimal Code 297.390
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Paperback / softback. New. In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious…
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