The Aga Khan Case : : Religion and Identity in Colonial India /

The Aga Khan Case : : Religion and Identity in Colonial India / / Teena Purohit.

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An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Purohit, Teena,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. Prehistories of the Isma'ili Sect in Nineteenth-Century Bombay
  • Chapter two. Sectarian Showdown in the Aga Khan Case of 1866
  • Chapter three. Reading Satpanth against the Judicial Archive
  • Chapter four. Comparative Formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan "Sect"
  • Chapter five. Sect and Secularism in the Early Nationalist Period
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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