Frontiers of embedded Muslim communities in India / / editor, Vinod K. Jairath

• Pubblicazione: New Delhi : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.6970954
• Soggetto topico: Muslims - India
• Altri autori: JairathVinod K
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Self identity and others -- pt. II. Caste : reproduction, stratification and mobility -- pt. III. Muslim citizens.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume approaches the study of Muslim societies through an evolutionary lens, challenging Islamic traditions, identities, communities, beliefs, practices and ideologies as static, frozen or unchangeable. It assumes that there is neither a monolithic, essential or authentic Islam, nor a homogeneous Muslim community. Similarly, there are no fixed binary oppositions such as between the ulama and sufi saints or textual and lived Islam. The overarching perspective - that there is no fixity in the meanings of Islamic symbols and that the language of Islam can be used by individuals, organiza
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontiers of embedded Muslim communities in India
• ISBN: 1-136-19679-X; 0-203-08524-8; 1-299-45972-2; 1-136-19680-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779688803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II