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The Aga Khan case : religion and identity in colonial India /

"An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purohit, Teena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prehistories of the Ismaili sect in nineteenth-century Bombay
  • Sectarian showdown in the Aga Khan case of 1866
  • Reading Satpanth against the judicial archive
  • Comparative formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan "sect"
  • Sect and secularism in the early nationalist period.