The Aga Khan Case
Religion and Identity in Colonial India
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 29. Oktober 2012
198 Seiten
978-0-674-06770-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe.
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Person
Teena Purohit is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University.
Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1. Prehistories of the Isma'ili Sect in Nineteenth-Century Bombay
- 2. Sectarian Showdown in the Aga Khan Case of 1866
- 3. Reading Satpanth against the Judicial Archive
- 4. Comparative Formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan "Sect"
- 5. Sect and Secularism in the Early Nationalist Period
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
