Title: The languages of political Islam
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.
Subjects: History, Islam, Islam and politics, Islamic law, Persian language, Political aspects of Persian language, Politics and government, Sufism, Droit islamique, Islam et politique, Histoire, Aspect politique, Soufisme, Politique et gouvernement, Politik, Persan (Langue), Islam, history, Islam, india, Political aspects
Places: India
Time periods: 18th century, 997-1765