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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783812803321

Autore

Sikkand Yoginder <1967, >

Titolo

Muslims in India since 1947 : Islamic perspectives on inter-faith relations / / Yoginder Sikand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-37824-6

0-203-35474-5

1-134-37825-4

1-280-03710-5

0-203-56138-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Royal Asiatic Society books

Disciplina

297.2/8/0954

Soggetti

Islam - Relations - Hinduism

Hinduism - Relations - Islam

Muslims - Political activity - India

India Politics and government 1947-

India Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and sources; 1 Introduction; 2 Asghar 'Ali Engineer's quest for a contextual Islamic theology; 3 Islam and the Muslim-minority predicament: reflections on the contributions of Sayyed Abul Hasan 'Ali Nadwi; 4 Peace, dialogue and da'wah: an analysis of the writings of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan; 5 Islamic Voice's agenda for the Muslims of India; 6 An Islamist approach to inter-faith dialogue: the Jama'at-i Islami of India; 7 Islamic perspectives on liberation and dialogue: Muslim writings in Dalit Voice

8 The 'Dalit Muslims' and the All-India Backward Muslim Morcha9 Islam and the Dalit quest for liberation in contemporary India; 10 'Now or Never!': the inter-faith dialogue project of Acharya Maulana Shams Naved 'Usmani; 11 The Deendar Anjuman: between dialogue and conflict; 12 Islamist activism in contemporary India: the Students' Islamic Movement of India; 13 Kashmir: from national liberation to Islamist jihad?; Glossary; Notes; References; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament, characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority, is producing new expressions of Islam, some of which seek to relate to non-Muslims in terms of confrontation, and others wh

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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001642329707536

Autore

Euler, Leonhard <1707-1783>

Titolo

Introductio in analysin infinitorum / auctore Leonhardo Eulero ..

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lausannæ : apud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & socios, 1748

Descrizione fisica

2 v. : ill., port. ; 4°

Classificazione

AMS 26-03

Disciplina

515.243

Soggetti

Calculus - Early works to 1800

Geometry, Infinitesimal - Early works to 1800

Functions - Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Vol 1 : xvi, 320 p., 17 leaves of plates (folded); v. 2: [2], 398, [1] p.

Allegorical image with Minerva on title page; latin maxim: latius sub aegide lucebit

Title page printed in red and black

Italics ; ancient greek ; latin

Xyl. headers and initials

Dedicatory letter to Johanni Jacobo Dortous de Mairan

Tomus primus: Segn.: [pi greco]2 [ast.]-2[ast]4 A-2R4

Impronta: T,ER usam z.go ut*b (3) 1748 (R)

Ex Libris Mario Lombardo