Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian context / by M. Reza Pirbhai.

Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically ‘legalistic’ and Muslims as uniformly ‘transgressive’ when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to misrepresent...

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Superior document:Social sciences in Asia, v. 25
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 25.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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