Islam and Its Culture in South Asia - Siddiqui, Iqtidar Husain
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Islam first arrived in India through Arab merchants in the very first century of Islam's rise in Arabia. Focusing on th arrival and growth of Islam in South Asia and the important socio-political changes it brought, Islam and Its Culture in South Asia examines the identity and lives of the converts to Islam, their reasons for conversion and the role performed by modern reformers who initiated modernist trends in order to enlighten Indian Muslims. It also analyses the approaches employed by modern Islamicists in their writings on the Muslims and their history in India. Based on contemporary and…mehr

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Islam first arrived in India through Arab merchants in the very first century of Islam's rise in Arabia. Focusing on th arrival and growth of Islam in South Asia and the important socio-political changes it brought, Islam and Its Culture in South Asia examines the identity and lives of the converts to Islam, their reasons for conversion and the role performed by modern reformers who initiated modernist trends in order to enlighten Indian Muslims. It also analyses the approaches employed by modern Islamicists in their writings on the Muslims and their history in India. Based on contemporary and near contemporary sources that have been hitherto unknown or overlooked, this volume will help scholars reconstruct the social and intellectual history of the different communities of South Asia.
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Autorenporträt
Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui was Chairman, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University and Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. He has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam(Leiden); Encyclopaedia Iranica (USA); and Encyclopaedia of Islamic Civilization in Arabic(Jordan) and is the author of several books, including Some Aspects of Afghan Despotism in India (1969); Mughal Relations with the Indian Ruling Elite (1983); Islam and Muslims in South Asia: Historical Perspective (1986); Perso-Arabic Sources of Information on the Life and Conditions in the Sultanate of Delhi (1992); Sher Shah Sur and His Dynasty (1995); Islamic Heritage in South Asia, vol. 1 (2001) and vol. 2 (2003); Medieval India: Essays in Intellectual Thought and Culture (2003); Authority and Kingship under the Sultans of Delhi (2006); Medieval India: Essays in Diplomacy and Culture (2009); Indo-Persian Historiography to the Fourteenth Century (enlarged edn. 2014); and Composite Culture under the Sultanate of Delhi (revd and enlarged edn, 2016).