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Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (Hardcover)
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Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (Hardcover)
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In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most
comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is
arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in
modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic. The Barelvī and
Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements
with beginnings in colonial South Asia. Almost two hundred years
separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present. Its
specter, however, continues to haunt the religious sensibilities of
postcolonial South Asian Muslims in profound ways, both in the
region and in diaspora communities around the world. Defending
Muḥammad in Modernity challenges the commonplace tendency to view
such moments of intra-Muslim contest through the prism of
problematic yet powerful liberal secular binaries like
legal/mystical, moderate/extremist, and reformist/traditionalist.
Tareen argues that the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic was instead
animated by what he calls “competing political theologies” that
articulated—during a moment in Indian Muslim history marked by
the loss and crisis of political sovereignty—contrasting visions
of the normative relationship between divine sovereignty, prophetic
charisma, and the practice of everyday life. Based on the close
reading of previously unexplored print and manuscript sources in
Arabic, Persian, and Urdu spanning the late eighteenth and the
entirety of the nineteenth century, this book intervenes in and
integrates the often-disparate fields of religious studies, Islamic
studies, South Asian studies, critical secularism studies, and
political theology.
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