Pan Islamic Connections - Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf (Paperback)

South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims--roughly 500 million. In the course of the Islamisation process begun in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation that culminated in the Mughal Empire. While paying lip service to the power centres of Islam in the Gulf, including Mecca and Medina, this civilisation has cultivated its own variety of Islam, based on Sufism. Over the last fifty years, pan-Islamic ties have intensified between these two regions. Gathering together some of the best specialists on the subject, this volume explores these ideological, educational and spiritual networks, which have gained momentum due to political strategies, migration flows and increased communications. At stake are both the resilience of the civilisation that imbued South Asia with a specific identity, and the relations between Sunnis and Shias in a region where Saudi Arabia and Iran are fighting a cultural proxy war, as evident in the foreign ramifications of sectarianism in Pakistan. Islamic Connections investigates the nature and implications of the cultural, spiritual and socio-economic rapprochement between these two Islams.

General

Imprint:	C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	CERI: Comparative Politics and International Studies Series
Release date:	December 2017
Editors:	Christophe Jaffrelot • Laurence Louer
Dimensions:	216 x 136 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-84904-818-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	1-84904-818-5
Barcode:	9781849048187

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