The Aga Khan case: religion and identity in colonial India
An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a vari...
| Subtitles: | The Aga Khan Case : religion & politics in colonial India / Teena Purohit |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass [u.a.]
Harvard University Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aga Khan
B Great Britain / Colonialism / India / Religion / Secularism B Swāmī-Nārāyaṇī' |
| Further subjects: | B
Aga Khan (1804-1881)
Trials, litigation, etc
B Ismailites Legal status, laws, etc (India) History 19th century B Tithes (Islamic law) (India) History 19th century B Religion and state (India) History 19th century B Thesis B Khojas Legal status, laws, etc (India) History 19th century |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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