Intra-Muslim polemics in South India: intimacies, mass publicity, and secularism

This book examines what unifies and separates various Sunni Muslim sects and incites polemics. It explores Islam as a body of information and cultural practices that focus on family and other social groups. The work also reveals the shared experience of being a persecuted religious minority in a Hin...

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Main Author: Menon, Nandagopal R. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kerala / Sunnites / Islamic theology / Polemics / Religious identity / Publicity
B India (Süd) / Islam / Polemics / Mass media / Religious life / Secularism
Further subjects:B Asian History
B Social History / HISTORY
B Theology
B Asiatische Geschichte
B Islamic Theology
B Islam
B Social & Cultural History
B Theology / Islam / RELIGION
B Asia / Generals / HISTORY
B Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Summary:This book examines what unifies and separates various Sunni Muslim sects and incites polemics. It explores Islam as a body of information and cultural practices that focus on family and other social groups. The work also reveals the shared experience of being a persecuted religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy
Physical Description:ix, 191 Seiten
ISBN:978-0-19-890332-1