Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India : Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism Hardback
by Nandagopal R. (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Mu Menon
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How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam?
This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala.
What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics—Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy.
Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety.
Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2024
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- ISBN:9780198903321
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:25/03/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198903321