Islam in South Asia in Practice

Barbara D. Metcalf, Barbara D. Metcalf, Barbara Metcalf

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2009
• ISBN:
  9781400831388
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Islamic Theology

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

INDEX

‘Abd al-Haqq Dihlawi, Shaykh, 390

‘Abd al-Hayy Lakhnawi, Mawlawi/Maulana, 343–44, 346–47

‘Abd al-Qadir Badayuni, 372, 390–401

‘Abd al-Qadir Gilani (Ghawth-ii a‘zam), Shaikh, Syed/Sayyid, 101, 106, 167, 344, 444

‘Abdul ‘Aziz, Shah, 21, 201

‘Abdullah Muhaddith Ropari, 342–43, 349

‘Abdu’l Latif, Shah, Risalo, 50

abjad, 79, 457

Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (caliph), 237, 307, 313, 324

Abu Dawud, Imam, 307

Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarrak, 14, 15, 77, 79, 390

Abu Hanifa, Imam, 227, 231, 285, 298, 300, 301, 302, 303, 307, 312, 321

Abu’l A‘la Maududi/Abul Ala Maududi/Abul Ala Mawdudi/Abul ala Maudoodi, Maulana/Mawlana, 28–29, 189, 242, 252, 253, 319, 425, 429, 433, 441, 447, 448

Abul Hasan ‘Ali/Hujwiri, Shaykh, 5

Abu’l Kalam Azad, Maulana, 372–73

Abul Mahasin Muhammad Sajjad, Maulana, 269, 317–25

Afghanistan, xvii, xx, 6, 17–18, 27, 29–30, 77, 243, 270

Agra, 17, 82

agriculture, 4, 371, 375–89

Ahl-i Hadith, 101, 226, 342–43, 426, 427, 435, 439

Ahl-i-Sunnat wa Jama‘at/Ahl-i Sunnat va Jama‘at (Barelvi/Barelwi) sect, 45, 101–3, 106, 226, 329, 342, 426, 427, 435, 439, 441, 449

Ahmad, Imtiaz, xxii, xxiii

Ahmadabad, 10

Ahmad Barelvi/Barelwi Shahid, Sayyid...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Princeton Readings in Religions
• Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Contributors
• Preface: Islam in South Asia in Practice · Barbara D. Metcalf
• Maps
• Introduction: A Historical Overview of Islam in South Asia · Barbara D. Metcalf
• Devotion and Praise: To Allah, Muhammad, Imams, and Elders
• Holy and Exemplary Lives
• The Transmission of Learning
• Guidance, Sharia, and Law
• Belonging
• Glossary
• Index