Muslims in India Since 1947 : Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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| Series: | Royal Asiatic Society books.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780203561386 0203561384 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |