Muslims in India : Contemporary Social and Political Discourses
Contents: Preface. I. Madrasas and Islamic Education: 1. Madrasas, terrorism and the Indian State. 2. Madrasas and Intra-Muslim rivalry. 3. Reforming the Indian Madrasas. 4. The Islamic Fiqh Academy : new steps in Madrasa reform. 5. New horizons for Muslim women. 6. A Deobandi Mullah\'s diatribe against \'Modern\' education for girls. 7. America courts The \'Ulama. II. Muslims as minorities--inter-religious and intra-Muslim relations: 8. The Indian \'Ulama and the freedom struggle. 9. The glories of India\': patriotism in Islamic discourse. 10. Muslims as minorities : an alternate Islamic perspective. 11. Towards a Fiqh for Muslim minorities. 12. Dissecting dialogue: thoughts on Islam and inter-faith relations. 13. Jama\'at-i Islami Hind: signs of change? 14. World social forum and Mumbai resistance: whither Indian Muslims? 15. The limits of radicalism: thoughts on the SIMI Ban. 16. Self-styled Imam raises flurry of Fatwas. 17. Countering conspiracy claims. 18. The politics of competitive Jihadism. 19. The spectre of sectarianism: analyzing the Ahl-i Hadith. 20. \'Conversion\' convulsions in Basti Nizamuddin. 21. Intra-Muslim sectarian rivalries and the \'Ulamma. 22. Shi\'a-Sunni relations: some reflections. 23. Shi\'a-Sunni dialogue: Kalbe Sadiq\'s theology of Islamic Ecumenism. III. Islam, war and peace in Kashmir: 24. Hopes for reconciliation in Kashmir. 25. Peace in Kashmir: engaging creatively with religion. 26. A different Doda. IV. Debating Muslim women and Islamic law: 27. Furore over family planning. 28. Triple Talaq in one sitting: an Islamic counter-perspective. 29. Women in the mosque. 30. Reforming Muslim personal law in India: the Fyzee formula. 31. Muslim personal law: demand for reforms in inheritance laws. 32. Patriarchy and sectarianism: explaining the dissensions in the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. 33. Yet another board; Indian Shias stress separate identity. 34. Shari\'ah court campaign in India. 35. Shari\'ah court campaign: the AIMPLB\'s perspective. 36. AIMPLB\'s \'model\' Nikahnamah : much Ado about nothing. V. Hindu-Muslim relations and the Hindutva challenge: 37. Hindutva appropriation of a Sufi Saint: Piety and politics in Chikmagalur. 38. Ayodhya\'s forgotten Muslim past.
"This book is a collection of essays on various aspects of lived Islam and Muslim social reality in contemporary India. Moving away from the normative discourse that characterises much discussion and debate about Muslims, it seeks to highlight the complex interactions between religion and a host of economic, social and political factors that help shape Indian Muslim identities. It draws attention to the multiple expressions of Islam and Muslim identity and challenges the notion of a Muslim monolith. This it does by looking as the ways in which various Indian Muslim organisations, activists and intellectuals are seeking to respond to various challenges that Muslims in India are today faced with, such as growing demands for gender justice, the imperative to dialogue with people of other faiths and the need to respond to Hindutva, Islamist and Islamophobic discourses and politics." (jacket)
