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Beyond Turk and Hindu : rethinking religious identities in Islamicate South Asia / edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813030999
  • 0813030994
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond Turk and Hindu.DDC classification:
  • 297.2/845/0954 22
LOC classification:
  • BP173.H5 B47 2000eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Alternate structures of authority: Satya Pīr on the frontiers of Bengal / Tony K. Stewart -- Beyond Turk and Hindu: crossing the boundaries in Indo-Muslim romance / Christopher Shackle -- Religious vocabulary and regional identity: a study of the Tamil Cirappuranam / Vasudha Narayanan -- Admiring the works of the ancients: the Ellora temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim authors / Carl W. Ernst -- Mapping Hindu-Muslim identities through the architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur / Catherine B. Asher -- Indo-Persian Tazkiras as memorative communications / Marcia K. Hermansen and Bruce B. Lawrence -- The "Naqshbandī reaction" reconsidered / David W. Damrel -- Real men and false men at the court of Akbar: the Majalis of Shaykh Mustafa Gujarati / Derryl N. MacLean -- Shariʻa and governance in the Indo-Islamic context / Muzaffar Alam -- Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states / Richard M. Eaton -- The story of Prataparudra: Hindu historiography on the Deccan frontier / Cynthia Talbot -- Harihara, Bukka, and the Sultan: the Delhi sultanate in the political imagination of Vijayanagara / Phillip B. Wagoner -- Maratha patronage of Muslim institutions in Burhanpur and Khandesh / Stewart Gordon.
Summary: ''[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. ... The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alternate structures of authority: Satya Pīr on the frontiers of Bengal / Tony K. Stewart -- Beyond Turk and Hindu: crossing the boundaries in Indo-Muslim romance / Christopher Shackle -- Religious vocabulary and regional identity: a study of the Tamil Cirappuranam / Vasudha Narayanan -- Admiring the works of the ancients: the Ellora temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim authors / Carl W. Ernst -- Mapping Hindu-Muslim identities through the architecture of Shahjahanabad and Jaipur / Catherine B. Asher -- Indo-Persian Tazkiras as memorative communications / Marcia K. Hermansen and Bruce B. Lawrence -- The "Naqshbandī reaction" reconsidered / David W. Damrel -- Real men and false men at the court of Akbar: the Majalis of Shaykh Mustafa Gujarati / Derryl N. MacLean -- Shariʻa and governance in the Indo-Islamic context / Muzaffar Alam -- Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states / Richard M. Eaton -- The story of Prataparudra: Hindu historiography on the Deccan frontier / Cynthia Talbot -- Harihara, Bukka, and the Sultan: the Delhi sultanate in the political imagination of Vijayanagara / Phillip B. Wagoner -- Maratha patronage of Muslim institutions in Burhanpur and Khandesh / Stewart Gordon.

Print version record.

''[Sets] the stage for a rewriting of nearly a thousand years of history to create new understandings of the nature of cultural encounters. ... The volume breaks free from the polemics of present-day politics and historicist distortions that have seeped into most standard texts.

English.