TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sikand,Yoginder Singh
TI  - Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic perspectives on inter-faith relations 
T2  - Royal Asiatic Society books
SN  - 0203561384
AV  - BP173.H5 S48 2004eb
U1  - 297.2/8/0954 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - RoutledgeCurzon
KW  - Islam
KW  - Relations
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Political activity
KW  - India
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1947-
KW  - Inde
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index; 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
N2  - 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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