New Book: Muslims in India : Contemporary, Social and Political Discourses
By Yoginder Sikand
Pages : 278, ISBN : 817871115X
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About The Book
This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of lived Islam and Muslim social reality in contemporary India . Moving away from the normative discourse that characterises much discussion and debate about Muslims, it seeks to highlight the complex interactions between religion and a host of economic, social and political factors that help shape Indian Muslim identities. It draws attention to the multiple expressions of Islam and Muslim identity and challenges the notion of a Muslim monolith. This it does by looking at the ways in which various Indian Muslim organisations, activists and intellectuals are seeking to respond to various challenges that Muslims in India are today faced with, such as growing demands for gender justice, the imperative to dialogue with people of other faiths and the need to respond to Hindutva, Islamist and Islamophobic discourses and politics.
CONTENTS
Preface
SECTION ONE : MADRASAS AND
ISLAMIC EDUCATION
1. Madrasas, Terrorism and the Indian State
2. Madrasas and Intra-Muslim Rivalry
3. Reforming the Indian Madrasas
4. The Islamic Fiqh Academy : New Steps in
Madrasa Reform
5. New Horizons for Muslim Women
6. A Deobandi Mullah’s Diatribe Against ‘Modern’ Education For Girls
7. America Courts the ‘Ulama
SECTION TWO : MUSLIMS AS MINORITIES—INTER-
RELIGIOUS AND INTRA-MUSLIM RELATIONS
8. The Indian ‘Ulama and the Freedom Struggle
9. ‘The Glories of India’: Patriotism in Islamic Discourse
10. Muslims as Minorities: An Alternate Islamic Perspective
11. Towards a Fiqh for Muslim Minorities
12. Dissecting Dialogue: Thoughts on Islam and Inter-Faith Relations
13. Jama’at-i Islami Hind: Signs of Change?
14. World Social Forum and Mumbai Resistance: Whither Indian Muslims?
15. The Limits of Radicalism: Thoughts on the SIMI Ban
16. Self-Styled Imam Raises Flurry of Fatwas
17. Countering Conspiracy Claims
18. The Politics of Competitive Jihadism
19. The Spectre of Sectarianism: Analyzing the Ahl-i Hadith
20. ‘Conversion’ Convulsions in Basti Nizamuddin
21. Intra-Muslim Sectarian Rivalries and the ‘Ulama
22. Shi’a-Sunni Relations: Some Reflections
23. Shi’a-Sunni Dialogue: Kalbe Sadiq’s Theology of Islamic Ecumenism
SECTION THREE : ISLAM, WAR AND PEACE
IN KASHMIR
24. Hopes for Reconciliation in Kashmir
25. Peace in Kashmir: Engaging Creatively With Religion
26. A Different Doda
SECTION FOUR : DEBATING MUSLIM WOMEN
AND ISLAMIC LAW
27. Furore Over Family Planning
28. Triple Talaq in One Sitting: An Islamic Counter-Perspective
29. Women in the Mosque
30. Reforming Muslim Personal Law in India: The Fyzee Formula
31. Muslim Personal Law: Demand for Reforms in Inheritance Laws
32. Patriarchy and Sectarianism: Explaining the Dissensions in the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board
33. Yet Another Board: Indian Shias Stress Separate Identity
34. Shari’ah Court Campaign in India
35. Shari’ah Court Campaign: The AIMPLB’s Perspective
36. AIMPLB’s ‘Model’ Nikahnamah : Much Ado About Nothing
SECTION FIVE : HINDU-MUSLIM RELATIONS AND
THE HINDUTVA CHALLENGE
37. Hindutva Appropriation of a Sufi Saint: Piety and Politics in Chikmagalur
38. Ayodhya’s Forgotten Muslim Past
About the Author: Dr Yoginder Sikand is a seasoned author on Islam and Muslims in South Asia . He holds a doctorate in history from London Univeristy and has done post doctoral research at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden , the Netherlands. He has written several books on Islam and Muslims in contemporary India including Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India (Penguin, 2003), Muslims in India Since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations (Routledge Curzon, 2004), Islam, Caste and Dalit Muslim relations in India and Struggling to be Heard: South Asian Muslim Voices. He is currently a freelance researcher based in Bangalore.