Jinnealogy
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Jinnealogy

Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

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Jinnealogy

Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history.

The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781503603950
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Walking Away from the Theater of History
  9. 1. Jinnealogy: Archival Amnesia and Islamic Theology in Post-Partition Delhi
  10. 2. Saintly Visions: The Ethics of Elsewhen
  11. 3. Strange(r)ness
  12. 4. Desiring Women
  13. 5. Translation
  14. 6. Stones, Snakes, and Saints: Remembering the Vanished Sacred Geographies of Delhi
  15. 7. The Shifting Enchantments of Ruins and Laws in Delhi
  16. Conclusion: Remnants of Despair, Traces of Hope
  17. Postscript
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. Series List