Understanding the Bengal Muslims
Subtitle: interpretative essays
By: edited by Rafiuddin Ahmed.
Contributors: Ahmed, Rafiuddin, 1941-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Muslims -- India -- Bengal -- History.; Bengal (India) -- History.
Other titles: Bengal Muslims
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The emergence of the Bengali Muslims / Rafiuddin Ahmed; title: Who are the Bengal Muslims? conversion and islamization in Bengal / Richard M. Eaton; title: Islam and Vaishnavism in the environment of rural Bengal / Ralph W. Nicholas; title: Islam and the social construction of the Bangladesh countryside / Peter J. Bertocci; title: The Bengal Muslims and the world of Islam : Pan-Islamic trends in colonial Bengal as reflected in the press / Mohammad Shah; title: A Muslim voice in modern Bengali literature : Mir Mosharraf Hosain / Clinton B. Seely; title: The changing world of Bengali Muslim women : the "dreams" and efforts of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein / Sonia N. Amin; title: Radicalism in Bengali Muslim thought : Kazi Abdul Wadud and the "religion of creativity" / Shahadat H. Khan; title: The Bengali Muslims and the state : secularism or huamnity for Bangladesh? / Joseph T. O'Connell; title: Gender and Islam in Bangladesh : metaphor and myth / Shelley Feldman; title: Bengali Muslims and Islamic fundamentalism :; title: the Jama't-i-Islami in Bangladesh / Enayetur Rahim.