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Politicizing Islam - The Islamic Revival in France and India (Hardcover)
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Politicizing Islam - The Islamic Revival in France and India (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Global Politics
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Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnographic study of Islamic
revival movements in France and India, home to the largest Muslim
minority populations in Europe and Asia respectively. Both diverse
secular democracies, France and India pursue divergent policies
toward their religious and other minorities. Yet they face similar
struggles over Islam that challenge the substance of national
identity and the core of each country's secular doctrine. After
9/11, debates about the role of Islamic madrasas and practices like
the headscarf became prominent. How is it that Islam, as an object
of debate, is politicized across disparate contexts at the very
moment when many Muslim communities have withdrawn from the state?
Why exactly is a movement deemed "communitarian" or a threatening
form of "political Islam"? Why is the issue of gender central to
politicization, even while women are increasingly active agents in
Islamic revivals? This book seeks to answer these questions by
examining the relationship between religion and politics and
showing how it is created and lived by Muslim communities in both
countries. Z. Fareen Parvez conducted her fieldwork over the course
of two years in the French city of Lyon, and its outer banlieues,
and the Indian city of Hyderabad. She immersed herself in mosque
communities, women's welfare centers, Islamic study circles, and
philanthropic associations, to provide an in-depth view of
middle-class and elite Muslims, as well poor and subaltern Muslims
in stigmatized neighborhoods. She illuminates how Muslims across
class divisions make claims on the secular state and struggle to
improve their lives as denigrated minorities. In Hyderabad, Muslim
elites fight for redistribution to the poor, who then use their
patronage to practice autonomy from the state and build vibrant
political communities. In Lyon, middle-class Muslims face
widespread discrimination and negotiate with the state for
religious recognition. But they remain estranged from Muslims in
the working-class banlieues who have embraced a sectarian form of
Islam and retreated into the private sphere. Parvez shows how these
diverse movements originated in either a flexible or militant
secularism, and how Muslim class relations are ultimately tied to
other debates within the Islamic tradition-Muslim women's struggle
for equal rights, and the potential for minority democratic
participation. The book shows how Islam is politicized top-down by
the state and then re-politicized by revival movements on the
ground. But this re-politicization is highly dependent on Muslim
class relations-and it masks an array of practices, social
relations, potentialities, and ultimately, different conceptions of
politics as rooted in either community or the state.
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