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This volume brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia. It comprises a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims.The thirty-four selections translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages highlight a wide variety of genres, many ...
This volume brings together some of the finest writings on the Muslims of Indian subcontinent and the role of Islamic symbols and identities in public life. It highlights the extent to which Muslims, like their Hindu counterparts, have been engaged in recent times in renewing and rethinking the historic traditions of their faiths. The essays are united in the challenge they offer to the negative stereotypes that are current, for example, that Islam is inevitably ...