Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations
Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and to deal with issues such as democracy and secularism. It examines how a common predicament, characterised by a sense of siege and the perception of being an oppressed minority, is producing new...
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This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and the modern nation-state, and deal with issues such as democracy and secularism.
AcknowledgementsNote on translations and sources1Introduction12Asghar 'Ali Engineer's quest for a contextual Islamic theology123Islam and the Muslim-minority predicament: reflections on the contributions of Sayyed Abul Hasan 'Ali Nadwi314Peace, dialogue and da'wah: an analysis of the writings of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan495Islamic Voice's agenda for the Muslims of India676An Islamist approach to inter-faith dialogue: the Jama'at-i Islami of India797Islamic perspectives on liberation and dialogue: Muslim writings in Dalit Voice938The 'Dalit Muslims' and the All-India Backward Muslim Morcha1099Islam and the Dalit quest for liberation in contemporary India12010'Now or Never!' the inter-faith dialogue project of Acharya Maulana Shams Naved 'Usmani13311The Deendar Anjuman: between dialogue and conflict15112Islamist activism in contemporary India: the Students' Islamic Movement of India18013Kashmir: from national liberation to Islamist jihad?193Glossary213Notes221References249Index256
