Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India
Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism
Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-890332-1 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-890332-1 (ISBN)
This book examines what unifies and separates various Sunni Muslim sects and incites polemics. It explores Islam as a body of information and cultural practices that focus on family and other social groups. The work also reveals the shared experience of being a persecuted religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy.
How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics—Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.
How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics—Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.
Nandagopal R. Menon is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", University of Münster, Germany.
The Way In
1. For and Against Polemics
2. Polemics versus Apologetics: Intimacy and Publicity
3. Techniques of Authentication: Originals, Counterfeits, and Publics
4. Phatic Sociality: Voice and Strategy in Intra-Muslim Encounters
Longing for Theology
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 333 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-890332-4 / 0198903324 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-890332-1 / 9780198903321 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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