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Shi'a Islam in Colonial India - Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Paperback)
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Shi'a Islam in Colonial India - Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years,
although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely
underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of
Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under
Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian
Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947.
Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing,
polemical literature and clerical biography, it assesses seminal
developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism,
madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation and the
politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these
significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian
identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in
interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful
birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of
which are very much alive in South Asia today.
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