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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Royal Asiatic Society booksPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 274 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203561384
  • 9780203561386
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslims in India since 1947.DDC classification:
  • 297.2/8/0954 22
LOC classification:
  • BP173.H5 S48 2004eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)114892

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

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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

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.