Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian ContextDespite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically ‘legalistic’ and Muslims as uniformly ‘transgressive’ when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresentations of pre-colonial Muslim norms and undue emphasis on colonial reforms alone when charting the course to post-coloniality. This book presents and challenges staple perspectives with a comprehensive reinterpretation of doctrinal sources, literary expressions and colonial records spanning the period from the reign of the 'Great Mughals' to end of the 'British Raj' (1526-1947). The result is an alternative vision of this transformative period in South Asian history, and an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
ISLAM AND THE MUGHALS | 17 |
The Categories of Doctrinal Islam | 19 |
Indicism Intoxication and Sobriety among the Great Mughals | 67 |
ISLAM AND COLONIALISM | 117 |
Codification and a New Sober Path | 119 |
Anglicisation and the Old Islam | 177 |
Objectifi cation and a New Intoxicated Way | 223 |
Nationalism and the New Islam | 269 |
Towards a PostOrientalist History | 337 |
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Glossary | 359 |
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