RT Book
T1 Shiʻa Islam in colonial India: religion, community and sectarianism
T2 Cambridge studies in Indian history and society
A1 Jones, Justin 1980-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883367378
AB 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.
AB Introduction; 1. Madrasas, mujtahids, and missionaries: Shi'a clerical expansion in colonial India; 2. Mosques, majalis and Muharram: marketplace Shi'ism; 3. Anjumans, endowments and Indian Shi'ism: the making of Shi'a society; 4. Aligarh, jihad, and pan-Islam: the politicisation of the Indian Shi'a; 5. The tabarra agitation and Shi'a-Sunni conflict in late-colonial India; Conclusion
OP 277
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BP192.7.I4
SN 978-0-511-79150-5
K1 Islam and politics : India
K1 Islamic sects : India
K1 Religious Life : Shīʻah
K1 Shīʻah : Customs and practices
K1 Shīʻah : India : History
K1 Shīʻah ; India ; History
K1 Shīʻah ; Customs and practices
K1 Islam and politics ; India
K1 Islamic sects ; India
K1 Religious life ; Shīʻah
K1 Lucknow (India) ; Religious life and customs
K1 Uttar Pradesh (India) ; Religious life and customs
K1 Lucknow (India) : Religious life and customs
K1 Uttar Pradesh (India) : Religious life and customs
K1 Shī'ah : India : History
K1 Shī'ah : Customs and practices
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511791505