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Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India: Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism

Intra-Muslim Polemics in South India: Intimacies, Mass Publicity, and Secularism

Menon, Nandagopal R.

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0198903324
ISBN13: 9780198903321
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 15 2024
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How do we understand differences and disputes among various branches of Islam? This book places intimacies, rather than radical incompatibilities, at the centre of its in-depth ethnographic account of mass-publicized theological polemics among Sunni Muslims in the south Indian state of Kerala. What unites Muslims of different Sunni groups also divides them and incites polemics--Islam as a shared system of knowledge and practices, bonds of kinship and other social relations, and the common condition of being a beleaguered religious minority in a Hindu majoritarian democracy. Diverging from works that have focused on how Islamic practices like ritual prayers facilitate the fashioning of theologically grounded pious selves, the book argues that intra-Muslim polemics marginalize theology and have little to do with cultivating piety. Instead, polemics constitute inter- and intra-religious socialities, enable Muslims to articulate their connections to India and other imaginaries, and produce Islam as a public religion in a secular nation-state.

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