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ISBN: 0472082590
Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN PRESS
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Author: TOBIN SIEBERS
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| Weight | 0.46 kg |
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| ISBN | 0472082590 |
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| Publication Date | 1993 |
| Pages | 294 |
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In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Harjot Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through a searching examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikh tradition was not concerned with establishing distinct religious boundaries. Most Sikhs recognized multiple identities grounded in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. Consequently, religious identities were highly blurred and several competing definitions of what constituted a Sikh were possible.
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by social and cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity. The ethnocentric logic of a new elite dissolved alternative ideals under the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism.
A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this important book calls into question basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities. An essential book for the field of South Asian religions, this work is also an important contribution to cultural anthropology, postcolonial studies, and the history of religion in general.
ISBN: 0226615928
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Subtitle: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND DIVERSITY IN THE SIKH TRADITION
Author: HARJOT OBEROI
ISBN: 0415233933
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
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Author: GEOFFREY PARRINDER
ISBN: 1851680993
Publisher: ONE WORLD
Subtitle: GLOBAL CHALLENGES TRANSFORMING FAITH
Author: ALAN RACE
This book is the most important primary source on the emergence of the Fatimid state in the early years of the tenth century. Its author, al-Qadi al-Nu’man, was an official historian of the Fatimids and an eminent exponent of Ismaili jurisprudence, as well as being perhaps the most prolific and versatile of all the Fatimid thinkers.
The Iftitah is al-Nu’man’s major historical work, and records in detail the background to the establishment of the Fatimid state, first in the Yemen and then in North Africa. It is based on official archival and biographical documents that were accessible to the author at the time, and which have not survived. It is thus a highly significant source on the religious, social and political conditions which prevailed when the Fatimids began to consolidate their rule. In charting the circumstances in which the Fatimid state came into being, this book will be of major interest and value to students of early medieval history and Islamic studies.
ISBN: 1850438854
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
Subtitle: THE RISE OF AN EARLY ISLAMIC EMPIRE
Author: HAMID
ISBN: 1851681752
Publisher: ONE WORLD
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Author: KLAUS K. KLOSTERMAIER
ISBN: 186064029X
Publisher: I.B.TAURIS
Subtitle: THE SAINTS IN THE ITALIAN CITY-STATES
Author: DIANA WEBB
Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, this text took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times. Instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, the author claimed that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding.
ISBN: 0415314542
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
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Author: MARY DOUGLAS
This book is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the ‘West’ of Islamic ‘fundamentalism’. It analyses the ethical and legal principles, rooted in both traditions, underlying any use of armed force in the modern world. After chapters on the history, theology and laws of war as seen from both sides, the book applies its conclusions to (a) the 1990-91 Gulf War and (b) the Bosnian Conflict. It concludes that Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilisations’ thesis is a dangerous myth.
ISBN: 0333638115
Publisher: MACMILLAN PRESS AND ST MARTIN’S PRESS
Subtitle: MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN APPROACHES TO WAR AND PEACE
Author: HARFIYAH ABDEL