Islamic contestations : essays on Muslims in India and Pakistan

This Collection Will Be Of Interest To Scholars And Students Of Modern South Asian History, And Specifically Of Modern Islam. General Readers Interested In Learning More About The Cultural And Political Life Of The World's Largest Muslim Population - That Of The Indian Subcontinent - Will Also Find This Collection Absorbing.--jacket. The Madrasa At Deoband: A Model For Religious Education In Modern India -- Two Fatwas On Hajj In British India -- The Past In The Present: Instruction, Pleasure, And Blessing In Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap Biitii -- Reading And Writing About Muslim Women In British India -- Nationalist Muslims In British India: The Case Of Hakim Ajmal Khan -- Hakim Ajmal Khan: Rais Of Delhi And Muslim 'leader' -- Nationalism, Modernity, And Muslim Identity In India Before 1947 -- Too Little And Too Much: Reflections On Muslims In The History Of India -- The Case Of Pakistan -- Islamic Arguments In Contemporary Pakistan -- 'traditionalist' Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tablighis, And Talibs -- Reflections On Iqbal's Mosque -- The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts Of The Hajj -- What Happened In Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik -- Narrating Lives: A Nationalist Muslim Intellectual. Barbara D. Metcalf. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Madrasa at Deoband: a model for religious education in modern India -- Two fatwas on hajj in British India -- The past in the present: instruction, pleasure, and blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap biitii -- Reading and writing about Muslim women in British India -- Nationalist Muslims in British India: the case of Hakim Ajmal Khan -- Hakim Ajmal Khan: rais of Delhi and Muslim 'leader' -- Nationalism, modernity, and Muslim identity in India before 1947 -- Too little and too much: reflections on Muslims in the history of India -- The case of Pakistan -- Islamic arguments in contemporary Pakistan -- 'Traditionalist' Islamic activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs -- Reflections on Iqbal's mosque -- The pilgrimage remembered: South Asian accounts of the hajj -- What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik -- Narrating lives: a Mughal empress, a French nabob, a nationalist Muslim intellectual. The essays in this volume, written over the course of the last quarter century, are intended to contribute to understanding the role that Islamic symbols and identities have come to play in Northern India and, since 1947, in Pakistan. Above all these essays offer a challenge to current negative stereotypes of the Muslim faith, demonstrating that the religion is not characterised by political militancy nor dominated by static traditionalism. Includes essays that are intended to contribute to understanding the role that Islamic symbols and identities have come to play in Northern India and, since 1947, in Pakistan. These essays offer a challenge to negative stereotypes of the Muslim faith, demonstrating that the religion is not characterised by political militancy.