Essays on Islam and Indian History,9780195662658

Essays on Islam and Indian History

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ISBN13: 9780195662658
ISBN10: 0195662652
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the pa

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(8)
SECTION 1 HISTORIOGRAPHY
1. Islamic History as World History
9(36)
2. Comparative History as World History: Religious Conversion in Modern India
45(31)
3. Multiple Lenses: Differing Perspectives of Fifteenth-Century Calicut
76(18)
4. Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States
94(39)
5. (Re)imag(in)ing Other²ness: A Postmortem for the Postmodern in India
133(26)
SECTION 2 THE DECCAN
6. The Articulation of Islamic Space in the Medieval Deccan
159(17)
7. Historical Introduction to Firuzabad, Palace City of the Deccan
176(13)
8. Sufi Folk Literature and the Expansion of Indian Islam
189(14)
SECTION 3 PUNJAB
9. The Political and Religious Authority of the Shrine of Baba Farid
203(22)
10. Court of Man, Court of God: Local Perceptions of the Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan, Punjab
225(24)
SECTION 4 BENGAL
11. Who are the Bengal Muslims? Conversion and Islamization in Bengal
249

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