Proceedings Of A Public Meeting Of The Mohamedans Assembled From Different Parts Of India At Dacca On The 30th December 1906 To Discuss The Formation Of The All India Muslim League Under The Chairmanship Of Nawab Viqar Ul Mulk Bahadur

Author : Justin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501232
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Shi'a Islam in Colonial India written by Justin Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today.