The languages of political Islam
Subtitle: India, 1200-1800 / Muzaffar Alam.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Islam -- India -- History.; Islam and politics -- India -- History.; Persian language -- Political aspects -- India.; Sufism -- India -- History.; Islamic law -- India -- History.; India -- Politics and government -- 997-1765.; India -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Description: Muzaffar Alam shows that the adoption of Arabo-Persian Islam in India changed the manner in which Islamic rule and governance were conducted. Islamic regulation and statecraft in a predominately Hindu country required strategic shifts from the original Islamic injunctions. Islamic principles could not regulate beliefs in a vast country without accepting cultural limitations and limits on the exercise of power. As a result of cultural adaptation, Islam was in the end forced to reinvent its principles for religious rule. Acculturation also forced key Islamic terms to change so fundamentally that Indian Islam could be said to have acquired a character substantially different from the Islam practiced outside of India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-223) and index.
Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2004.